Match was ranked among the top ten amateur players in the United States in 1948, 1949, and 1950 in both singles and doubles play.

[2][3] Lawn Tennis and Badminton magazine ranked him as the 12th-best professional player for the year 1955.

[8] He was a radio operator for three years in the United States Army Air Corps while in Guam, and played and lost to Bobby Riggs in the finals of the Army-Navy Championships in 1945.

As an amateur, Match won at La Jolla, California, on February 16, 1948; at Philadelphia in 1948; and at the Utah State Open in 1948 and 1949.

In 1949, playing for the University of San Francisco, Jack Tiero of Tulane beat Match in five sets in the finals of the NCAA tournament.