was another meeting with Hantuchová, who had beaten Erakovic in the semifinal in Pattaya, and this was yet another match affected by weather. Rain came after 25 minutes, with the score at 3–3, and Hantuchová promptly dropped her service on the resumption. She broke Erakovic's serve three games later, however, and they went to a tie-breaker. Erakovic held a set point at 6–5 but couldn't convert, whereas Hantuchová converted her first set point to take the tie-break 8–6 after an hour's play. Erakovic then dropped the first game of the second set. There were no other breaks of service, although Hantuchová had one more opportunity, and eventually the Slovak ran out the winner 7–6, 6–4. The final Premier-level English tournament is the Eastbourne International. Erakovic again started in the qualifying singles draw, where she began with a comfortable win over Lesia Tsurenko in just over an hour. The only time she dropped her service was when broken to love in the first game of the second set, but she broke Tsurenko's serve in the fourth and eight games before serving out to love. Her second match, against top-seed Daria Gavrilova, was a very different story. She broke the young Russian's serve in the first and fifth games to lead 4–1, but then lost four in a row before eventually holding her last two service games and forcing a tie-breaker. Erakovic dropped two set points before prevailing in just under an hour. The second set started the opposite way to the first, with Erakovic the player down 4–1. Although she held her next service game, Gavrilova served out to take the set 6–2. Unable to convert a break point in Gavrilova's first service game of the deciding set, Erakovic then lost her own serve before breaking back in the eighth game to level at 4–4. She held her own serve, then broke Gavrilova to take the set and the match, 7–6, 2–6, 6–4, in 2 hours and 35 minutes. Gavrilova also ended up going into the main draw, however, as the highest-ranked loser. She took top seed Petra Kvitová's spot, and won her way to the quarterfinals before withdrawing due to an abdominal muscle injury. Erakovic, meanwhile, faced Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova in the first round, a match which was all over in just 55 minutes. Erakovic dropped her last two service games in both sets, with Pironkova winning 6–2, 6–2. Scheduled