Although some predicted Smashnova might put up more of a fight, the Israeli could find no way past Sharapova and slumped to her 10th first-round exit in 12 Wimbledon appearances.

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Some people have been surprised that, although meteorologists predicted these storms (as they infamously failed to do in 1987), and the Environment Agency issued accurate flood warnings, little seems to have been done to obviate the damage.

ECONOMIST: A hard rain

Although the predicted distance between the debris and the satellite seemed to preclude a collision, the fact that the close approach happened within 10 seconds of the change in orbit made the Feng Yun 1C debris the likely culprit, Kelso wrote in a blog post.

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