Sentence examples for make a match of from inspiring English sources

I take him to make a match of it, but Federer to reach the final.

Can the one who is behind get a second wind and come back to make a match of it?

Nadal in Paris is a decidedly different proposition, however, but if the conditions are cold and damp, Monaco could make a match of it.

20 min: Sudan are starting to make a match of this, with some nifty triangular passing in midfield enabling them to make inroads towards the Angolan box.

While Serena couldn't recreate the dominating game she used to dismantle Martina Hingis in the semifinal, she tried to make a match of it.

The Spaniard attempted to make a match of it in the third set but Federer broke through once more in the third game.

"We're going to have to do something quick if we're going to make a match out of this," said Nick Price of South Africa, standing by the 18th green just moments after losing the match that completed the sweep.

PARIS — Lauren Davis of Boca Raton, Fla., rallied from a disastrous first seven games to make a match out of a rout.

"But, somehow, he played and psyched and performed in such a way that he made a match of it, and then he just ran out of steam.

As for today's final, if Djokovic makes a match of it — and he's certainly capable of that — then good theatre will stave off anti-climax.

It was remembered as Harry Kane's afternoon, and rightly so, but it was notable for being one of those days when both teams attacked and Chelsea made a match of it to the very end.