Picture a long tennis match squeezed down to one rally. Two hours of running, and now one ball decides all of it. That squeezed-down thing can be looked at from two sides. Look at the and you see a situation: it is match point, and the court goes quiet. Look at the player and you see a chance she has been handed, one she can take or drop — and if she drops it, another one may come, which is why they can be counted.
One branch
只差一分的那一刻
兩個義項是同一個畫面的兩個角度，差別在把它當成「狀態」還是當成「可以數的機會」，而冠詞就是分辨的線索。
noun · B2
In tennis, the moment in a match when one player needs to win only one more point to win the whole match. Used in this way it takes no a or the: people simply say that a player is at match point, or that it is match point.
賽末點