she won her first WTA Tour singles tournament at the National Indoor Championships in Memphis. In doing so, she became the first New Zealander to win a WTA Tour singles title since Belinda Cordwell won the 1989 Singapore Open. It was to be the last time the tournament was played. Then Erakovic teamed up with former world No. 1, Cara Black, and they had immediate success together, reaching the finals of three European tournaments. At the French Open, Erakovic upset 16th seed Dominika Cibulková in the second round before losing to 17th seed Sloane Stephens in the third round, thus missing out on a fourth-round match against defending champion Maria Sharapova. She and Black made it to the quarterfinals of the doubles, losing in three sets to second seeds Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Hradecká. She was beaten by Laura Robson in the third round at Wimbledon, after being a set up and serving for the match. Seeded 11th, she and Black were beaten in the second round of the doubles by Eugenie Bouchard and Petra Martić, 7–6, 7–6. At the US Open she lost her first-round singles match to María Teresa Torró Flor 0–6, 4–6, while she and Black, seeded 13th, lost in a marathon third-round doubles match, again to the second seeds (this time Makarova and Vesnina). Seeded sixth, she reached the final of the Challenge Bell for the second time, defeating Mallory Burdette, Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová, Ajla Tomljanovic and Christina McHale before losing in straight sets to Lucie Šafářová. Erakovic lost in qualifying in both the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo and the China Open in Beijing. Her doubles partnership with Black had ended, as Black joined forces with Sania Mirza to win both those tournaments and announced that the new partners intended to stay together through 2014. Although Erakovic was drawn to play doubles in Beijing with Elena Vesnina, she withdrew from that competition and all tournaments for the remainder of the year after the death of her grandmother. The end of the year found her as 46th ranked player. 2014: Regress to top 80 At her home tournament in Auckland, the Auckland Open, Erakovic was reunited briefly with Cara Black in the doubles. Seeded second, they lost in the first round to local wild-card entry Sacha Jones and Abigail Guthrie. Erakovic then lost to Lauren Davis in the first round of singles. She also lost in the