1.   TWICE US Open champion and former teenage sensation Tracy Austin began a comeback yesterday by winning her first match in nearly nine years.

2.   A single mother, Huber began her comeback this year.

3.   After the score, Bledsoe began a comeback of his own.

4.   But Morrison was to begin a comeback that, if on track, would have resulted in a multimillion-dollar meeting with Mike Tyson later this year.

5.   Defenseman Craig Ludwig began the comeback by taking a Nieuwendyk feed and slapping a hard drive that barely sneaked past the previously impenetrable Patrick Roy.

6.   Even though Jones told him not to worry about the money before he began his comeback, Johnston admitted the contract was part of his motivation.

7.   Gore hopes to begin a comeback with his scheduled announcement on Tuesday of his Democratic running mate.

8.   He intends to begin his comeback Sunday in New Orleans, where a team of specialists will help him return to baseball shape.

9.   It might enable Nigeria itself, a country with real possibilities, to begin a comeback from decades of corruption, dictatorship, ethnic tension and war.

10.   Late in the game, he scored the goal that began the comeback that forced the visitors to cling on until the buzzer.