point, but held service at her third attempt to run out the winner 6–2, 2–6, 6–4 in 2 hours and 9 minutes. She has now won all three of her matches against Erakovic. Finally able to take the court with Petkovic as her doubles partner, they won their first two matches in straight sets, demolishing the fourth seeds Tímea Babos and Anna-Lena Grönefeld 6–1, 6–2, in the quarterfinal. The semifinal saw Casey Dellacqua and Darija Jurak take the first set 6–4 in a see-saw affair, and then Erakovic and Petkovic raced through the second set to win it 6–1. Although Petkovic served an ace during the super tie-break, she also finished with a double-fault to hand the deciding set to Dellacqua and Jurak 5–10. Erakovic skipped the following tournament in Stuttgart, choosing instead to wait a further week until the only African stop on the WTA Tour, the Morocco Open at Marrakesh. Playing only singles, she faced Kristina Mladenovic in the first round. She lost her opening service game, and despite several chances in Mladenovic's first two long service games, could not break back, instead being broken again to lose the first set 2–6. Mladenovic then dropped service twice in the second set, to Erakovic's once, the latter taking the set 6–3. Erakovic dropped her service to love in both her second and third service games in the deciding set and, although she broke back to 2–5, and saved two match points in the last game, Mladenovic eventually triumphed 6–3. Although Erakovic's first serve went well, the biggest difference between the players was again the second service, where Erakovic was able to win only eight points in the match, out of 29 attempts, compared with 22 from 44 for Mladenovic. Mid-year: Back to Europe At the Madrid Open, she drew Kateryna Bondarenko in her first-round qualifying singles match. Erakovic opened with a hard-fought three-set win. Three hours later she was back on court for her second qualifying match, against Monica Niculescu, eventually taking the match 2–6, 7–6, 6–3. Her first round proper was against her new doubles partner, Julia Görges, the final score being 6–1, 0–6, 6–4. In their first-round doubles match they came up against the wildcard pair of Lisa Raymond and Madison Keys, to whom they lost 5–7, 6–3, [6–10]. The next stop on the tour was in Rome for the Internazionali d'Italia, where Erakovic lost her first-round