to serve out for the win on their fourth set point. The deciding set, however, was in complete contrast to the first two, as Medina Garrigues and Parra Santonja raced through in just 25 minutes without losing a game. The final score in favour of the seeded pair was 7–6, 3–6, 6–0. Erakovic injured a knee at Eastbourne and, although she continued on to play at Wimbledon, she then returned home to Auckland for six weeks' rest and rehabilitation. Back to the U.S. – and injury ends her year Playing singles only, Erakovic returned to the tour at the Cincinnati Open where, in a scrappy first-round qualifying match that saw more service breaks than holds, she lost to Kurumi Nara, 4–6, 3–6. She also played singles only at the Connecticut Open. She beat Lucie Hradecká in the first round of qualifying, Erakovic winning the first set 6–4, and losing the second 3–6. They had a service break each early in the third set, then held serve until the tenth game of the set, when Erakovic broke to win the match 6–4, 3–6, 6–4. She had identical scorelines for the first two sets against Olga Savchuk in the second round of qualifying, then broke Savchuk's first service game of the third set to lead 3–0. However, she dropped her own service when leading 4–2, and games then went with service until Erakovic was broken to love to make the score 6–5 in favour of Savchuk. The latter then served out to love to win the match 4–6, 6–3, 7–5. At the US Open, Erakovic was drawn against second seed Simona Halep in the first round. Serving first, she started with three consecutive backhand unforced errors, dropping both that and her fourth service game as Halep took the first set 6–2 in 32 minutes. After receiving treatment on her troublesome knee during the break between sets, Erakovic was broken in her first two service games to be down 0–3, and retired from the match. Scheduled to play doubles with Watson against Krajicek and Strýcová the following day, she was forced to default. Two weeks later, having returned home, she announced that she would not be playing again in 2015 to allow her knee time to fully recover. She finished the year with a singles ranking at 135, rather higher than the first estimate of "below 160". 2016 Auckland, then Australia Feeling well-rested