Game, Set, Match Meaning

Example : 1915, Ralph Henry Barbour, Left Tackle Thayer, ch. 13:  "Game, set and match to Byrd!" announced Westcott above the applause. "Byrd wins the School Championship!"2003 Feb. 19, Christopher Buckley, "Opinion: Another March of Folly?," New York Times (retrieved 9 June 2015):  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.2010 July 6, Mark Thompson, "Hyping Hypersonic Missiles," Time (retrieved 9 June 2015):  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.2014 Sep. 30, Dave Altavilla, "The Most Important Promised Feature Of Windows 10," Forbes (retrieved 9 June 2015):  This is game, set and match for Microsoft. . . . [I]f Microsoft can pull off one operating system and one companion App Store that functions seamlessly across all device types from smartphones, to tablets, notebooks, hybrid 2-in-1 devices and desktops, all with common apps that just work, they could very well one-up the competition.