lost a re-match against top seeds Errani and Vinci. 2014: Inconsistency Hantuchová began the Australian Open Series in the first round of the Brisbane International, where she lost in an upset to Ashleigh Barty. In doubles, she and Sabine Lisicki lost to top-seeded Peschke and Srebotnik. Hantuchová, then lost in the first round of the Sydney International to wild-card Ajla Tomljanović. She and Arantxa Parra Santonja beat Darija Jurak and Megan Moulton-Levy in the first round of the doubles, but lost to fourth seeds Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears in the second. At the 2014 Australian Open, she was seeded 31st and defeated Heather Watson in the first round and Karolína Plíšková in the second round. She lost to top seed Serena Williams in the third round. In the doubles, Hantuchová and Lisa Raymond were seeded 15th and beat Mandy Minella and Chanelle Scheepers in the first round and Magdaléna Rybáriková and Stefanie Vögele in the second round. They lost to third seeds Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina in the third round. In mixed doubles, Hantuchová and Leander Paes beat Ajla Tomljanović and James Duckworth in the first round and eighth seeds Elena Vesnina and Mahesh Bhupathi in the second round. They lost to Kristina Mladenovic and Daniel Nestor in the quarterfinals. Hantuchová's next tournament was the Indoors in Paris. She defeated Marina Erakovic in the singles, but was beaten by top seed Maria Sharapova in round two. In doubles, she and Petra Kvitová lost to fellow wild-cards Alizé Cornet and Caroline Garcia in the first round. She then played at the Qatar Open, where she had to withdraw during the second set of her first-round match with a right-knee injury. In March, Hantuchová hired Peter Lundgren, who coached Roger Federer from 2000 to 2003. She had previously been coached by Eduardo Nicolás from mid-2013 to the beginning of 2014. Hantuchová lost both her openers at Indian Wells and Miami to Americans Varvara Lepchenko and Madison Keys, respectively. At the Charleston Cup where she was the 12th seed, she lost in the quarterfinals to fellow Slovak Jana Čepelová. Hantuchová then reached her first semifinal of the season at Marrakech as the top seed. There, she lost to Romina Oprandi. At the Madrid Open, she lost to Roberta Vinci in the first round. The following week, she lost in the first round again at Rome to Monica Puig. During the grass-court