match point

match point
/mach" poynt"/ for 1; /mach" poynt'/ for 2
1. (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) the point that if won would enable the scorer or the scorer's side to win the match.
2. Duplicate Bridge. a scoring unit consisting of one point awarded to a partnership for each opposing partnership whose score they better on a hand and of one-half point for each opposing partnership whose score they equal.
[1920-25]

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