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Federer's win streak halted by teenager

Roger Federer's 25-match winning streak, the longest in men's tennis since 1984, ended Friday at the hands of a French teenager not even ranked in the top 100.

Richard Gasquet, an 18-year-old qualifier playing in just his fourth match of the year on the ATP Tour, jolted the world's No. 1 player by saving three match points in a 6-7 (7-1), 6-2, 7-6 (10-8) victory to reach the Monte Carlo (Monaco) Masters semifinals.

``It feels surreal,'' Gasquet said.

Federer, a four-time Grand Slam winner, was going for his third consecutive Masters Series title in this important clay-court event leading to the French Open.

``He's definitely got all the tools,'' the Swiss star said. ``It's a matter of consistency. That's what I was struggling with in the beginning. I think that's what he was doing, too.''

-- Justine Henin-Hardenne advanced to the semifinals of the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, S.C., top-ranked Lindsay Davenport was forced to retire in the third set of their match with a pulled muscle in her hip.

Henin-Hardenne, who spent most of last season ranked No. 1, won 3-6, 6-3, 1-0.

FOOTBALL: The doctor at the center of a steroid investigation involving Carolina Panthers players was suspended by the state medical board, which called the practitioner a ``serious threat'' to public health.

The South Carolina Board of Medical Examiners said Dr. James Shortt prescribed the steroid testosterone to four unidentified male patients ``in doses and frequencies that were extremely unlikely to have been prescribed with any legitimate medical justification.''

A medical board spokesman declined to say whether any of the four men cited in the suspension order were members of the Panthers. CBS News reported last month that three Carolina players filled prescriptions from Shortt for banned steroids less than two weeks before the team played in the 2004 Super Bowl.

MOTORSPORTS: Ryan Newman almost lost control of his car just before taking the green flag for his qualifying run, and still won another Nextel pole with a lap of 192.582 mph at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas.

Newman earned his 30th pole in 123 career races to start first in Sunday's Samsung/Radio Shack 500.

-- Champ Car champion Sebastien Bourdais became just the fourth foreign-born driver to win an IROC race, leading the final 22 laps at Texas Motor Speedway.

BASKETBALL: UCLA and USC's women's teams have signed three spring recruits.

UCLA added Tierra Henderson of Muir High in Pasadena and Chinyere Ibekwe of Carson High to enter in the fall of 2005. Henderson, a 5-10 forward/guard, averaged 16.6 points, 6.5 rebounds and 5.0 steals a game last season. Ibekwe, a 6-4 post player, averaged 23.2 points, 12.9 rebounds and 3.7 blocked shots.

USC signed Nadia Parker from Bethel High in Spanaway, Wash. The 6-4 center averaged 15 points, 13 rebounds, four blocks and three steals.

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-- Notre Dame, Purdue, North Carolina State and Xavier will play in the annual Wooden Tradition doubleheader Nov. 26 at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

DePaul's Dave Leitao has accepted an offer to become Virginia's coach, ending a search after Pete Gillen resigned last month.

-- Buzz Peterson, fired as Tennessee's coach last month, was introduces as the new coach at Coastal Carolina.

-- Rollie Massimino, best known for leading Villanova to the 1985 NCAA title and out of coaching since leaving Cleveland State in 2003, has been selected head of basketball operations at Northwood University, a fledgling NAIA program.

--Michael Adams resigned as coach of the WNBA's Washington Mystics to become an assistant coach at the University of Maryland under Gary Williams, who coached him at Boston College in the mid-'80s.

--Joanne Boyle signed a five-year contract to become the new women's coach at California, ending her successful tenure at Richmond.

HOCKEY: Dave Poulin, Notre Dame's coach the past 10 years and a former NHL All-Star, resigned to become special assistant for athletic development at the university.

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Roger Federer dejectedly walks off the court after a quarterfinal loss to Richard Gasquet, who stopped Federer's win streak at 25.

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