"game, set, match" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1915, Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 13, in Left Tackle Thayer",
          "text": "\"Game, set and match to Byrd!\" announced Westcott above the applause. \"Byrd wins the School Championship!\"",
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        "Victory at the conclusion of a tennis match."
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        "(sports, tennis) Victory at the conclusion of a tennis match."
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          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "tennis",
          "word": "peli, erä ja ottelu"
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          "text": "The atom bomb: U.S. 1, U.S.S.R. 0. Then came Sputnik, and the score was tied at 1 apiece. Then Apollo and putting a man on the moon — game, set, match.",
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        "(idiomatic, by extension) An expression indicating finality, announcing that a series of events—usually involving some form of rivalry—has reached a conclusion."
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          "lang": "Maori",
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          "word": "kua kēhi"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "tennis",
      "word": "peli, erä ja ottelu"
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      "sense": "tennis",
      "word": "Spiel, Satz und Sieg"
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