game, set, match phrase2 •Victory at the conclusion of a tennis match."Game, set and match to Byrd!" announced Westcott above the applause. "Byrd wins the School Championship!" — 1915 •An expression indicating finality, announcing that a series of events—usually involving some form of rivalry—has reached a conclusion.A few years after that, Mikhail Gorbachev effectively surrendered in a cold war that had lasted almost four decades, and in a few more years the Berlin Wall came down. Game, set, match. — 2003
