the doubles, where Erakovic and Chang again went through to the final. In a match marred by copious unforced errors, they were again runners-up, this time to Magdalena Fręch and An-Sophie Mestach, with the final score being 4–6, 6–7. Less than four hours later, Erakovic was more than a hundred kilometres away in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, to start the next tournament in the series. And, two and a half hours after that, she had won an exhausting first round singles qualifying match against American Alexandra Stevenson, 6–7, 7–5, 6–0. Playing singles only, she eventually went all the way to the semifinals, where she lost to Alison Van Uytvanck in straight sets, 4–6, 2–6. From there it was on to Roehampton, and a successful run through the qualifying rounds for Wimbledon, with an emphatic win over Australian teenager Destanee Aiava sealing her place in the main draw. Unfortunately she drew second seed Simona Halep as her opponent and, not playing as well as she had in the qualifying matches, lost in straight sets, 4–6, 1–6. The loss of the points from her success the year before meant that her ranking dropped 50 places to 179. She flew home for a short break, before heading to the US and an ITF tournament in California. Back to North America At the Sacramento tournament, after winning the first set in her opening match against Jennifer Elie, Erakovic dropped the second set and was forced to retire with an injury. Taking a few days off to recover, she moved to the Premier event at Stanford where, after a comfortable win over Raquel Atawo in the first round of qualifying, and a gruelling 2 hours and 40 minute match against American teenager Michaela Gordon, she was drawn to meet Ana Konjuh in the first round. Unfortunately her neck injury recurred, and she had to retire with the score at 6–3, 1–0 to Konjuh. Set to play WTA doubles for the first time since Auckland, she was paired with Ajla Tomljanović who also had to withdraw from her first-round singles through injury. The latter's problem with her right shoulder was what forced them to default the doubles match. Next up was the US Open, and Erakovic's poor year continued, being beaten in the first round of singles qualifying by 18 year old Hungarian Fanny Stollár. Broken early in both sets, she lost in just over an hour.