top seed in the qualifying tournament, after CoCo Vandeweghe was promoted to the main draw. She raced through her three matches to qualify for the tournament proper, dropping only eight games in total. Her first-round match was against fifth seed (and world No. 12) Sara Errani, who sped away to an early 4–0 lead. From there it was all one-way traffic, as Erakovic broke back and then shut out the Italian almost completely, winning 12 of the next 13 games to take the match 6–4, 6–1, the only hiccup being when she dropped her own service in the second game of the second set. Errani had started with an amazing 39 consecutive first service points, and the only times she needed a second serve in the first set were the first two points of her fifth service game. Erakovic was unable to repeat her effort in the second round, falling to Australian left-hander Casey Dellacqua 2–6, 4–6. Her second serve deserted her completely, as she won only three out of 17 in the entire match. She also struggled to break Dellacqua's serve, winning only one of six break points in the first set and one of four in the second. With Erakovic only playing singles in this tournament, Parra Santonja teamed up with Janković to go as far as the semifinals in the doubles. Two days later Erakovic was in Wuhan for the Wuhan Open, only to find herself with a walkover win in the first round of qualifying. Her scheduled opponent, Varvara Lepchenko, was still competing in the Korea Open, where she made it all the way to the final before losing to Karolína Plíšková. Erakovic won her second qualifying match to reach the main draw, but lost in the first round to fellow qualifier Karin Knapp in three sets. In the doubles she had a new partner in Stefanie Vögele, and they won the first set comfortably against Anna-Lena Grönefeld and Alicja Rosolska. All four players dropped their first service game in the second set, but Vögele dropped her next service game as well, and Grönefeld served out the set to win 6–4. She and Rosolska then dropped only one point while serving in the super tie-break to run out the winners 10–5. Next stop on the tour was the last Premier-Mandatory tournament of the season, the China Open. A very easy winner in the first round of