final before losing to second seed Anna Schmiedlová. The Charleston Open is the first WTA Tour event of the season to be played on clay, and Erakovic scored what was described as one of her finest wins on that surface when beating former world No. 3, Nadia Petrova, in three sets in the first round. However, she was well-beaten by the No. 1 ranked junior in the world, Belinda Bencic. In the doubles, she and new partner Arantxa Parra Santonja were leading 5–4 over the No. 1 pair in the world, Hsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuai, before Peng suffered an abdominal strain and was forced to retire. Their second round (quarterfinal) was the complete opposite, as they quickly lost to Medina Garrigues and Shvedova. Erakovic returned to New Zealand for a holiday through most of April, before resuming as top seed at the $50k clay-court tournament in Indian Harbour Beach, Florida. She beat two qualifiers before losing to Anett Kontaveit in the quarterfinals. Moving over to Europe, she was beaten in the first round of qualifying singles for the Italian Open in Rome by Julia Görges. She progressed to the doubles in the quarterfinals, where, for the second time in the space of a few months, she came up against Peschke and Srebotnik. She and partner Arantxa Parra Santonja were beaten by the fourth seeds, who went on to win the tournament after Errani and Vinci had to retire when Errani injured her hip. They were second seeds in the doubles at the Nürnberger Versicherungscup, their last tournament before the French Open, but were well-beaten in the first round by Anna-Lena Grönefeld and Antonia Lottner. Erakovic then lost her first-round singles match to top seed Angelique Kerber. At the French Open, Erakovic had an easy win over Nadiia Kichenok in the first round, before losing to fifth seed Petra Kvitová. She and Parra Santonja were seeded 16th in the doubles, and had straight sets wins in the first three rounds as they progressed to the quarterfinals, a performance which equalled Erakovic's run from the previous year. Up against the higher-ranked, but unseeded, Lucie Hradecká and Michaëlla Krajicek, they led the first set 5–2 before losing five games in a row, and were eventually defeated 7–5, 6–3. The grass-court season in England began badly for Erakovic, when she was beaten in the first round of the Birmingham Classic by Tímea Babos.