(quarterfinal) was against their old foes Medina Garrigues and Shvedova. Down 0–5, 0–40 in the first set, they were able to win that set (although losing the next) before going on to win another super tie-break 10–7. It became three super tie-breaks from three when beating Caroline Garcia and Monica Niculescu in the semifinal, clawing their way back from 3–8 in the final set to level at 9-all, then going on to win 11–9. The final saw another titanic struggle, this time against Andreja Klepač and Sílvia Soler Espinosa. After breaking Soler Espinosa's serve to lead 4–3, Erakovic and Parra Santonja both dropped service games to lose the first set 5–7. They recovered to win the second set 6–4, coming back from 0–40 in the last game of the set. Up 7–5 at the second change of ends in the super tie-break, they did not win another point as Klepač and Soler Espinosa wrapped up the match 10–7. As the US Open began, it was announced that Erakovic had been voted onto the WTA Players' Council, replacing Akgul Amanmuradova as the representative of the 51–100 Ranking Category. She celebrated by recording her first ever singles victory at Flushing Meadows, beating 20th seed and former US- and French Open-champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in three sets. In the second round, she faced Elena Vesnina, and lost a three-set match in just under two and a half hours, but Erakovic would have rued her missed opportunities in the first set when Vesnina came from 2–5 down to win five successive games. In the doubles, Erakovic and Parra Santonja were again ranked 17th, and started with a comfortable win against the teenage American wildcards Katerina Stewart (who would progress all the way to the semifinals in the girls' singles) and Louisa Chirico, but the second round match against Muguruza and Suárez Navarro saw the Connecticut Open result reversed, with the Spanish 12th seeds prevailing 6–7, 6–3, 6–3. Erakovic missed the next week of tournaments after the US Open due to taking a training block. These included the Tournoi de Québec, where she had been runner-up a year earlier, and the loss of points carrying over from that result saw her drop from 76 to 103 in the singles rankings, taking her outside the top 100 for the first time in four years. She resumed a week later in the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, becoming