Marina Erakovic
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Erakovic at the 2016 US Open
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| Country (sports) |
 New Zealand |
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| Residence | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Born |
6 March 1988 Split, SFR Yugoslavia (now Croatia) |
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) |
| Turned pro | 2005 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | US$2,472,702 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 349–233 |
| Career titles | 1 WTA, 12 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 39 (7 May 2012) |
| Current ranking | No. 107 (20 March 2017) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (2009, 2012, 2014) |
| French Open | 3R (2013) |
| Wimbledon | 3R (2008, 2013, 2016) |
| US Open | 2R (2014) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 178–138 |
| Career titles | 8 WTA, 6 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 25 (24 June 2013) |
| Current ranking | No. 199 (20 March 2017) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 1R (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) |
| French Open | QF (2013, 2014) |
| Wimbledon | SF (2011) |
| US Open | QF (2008) |
| Last updated on: 20 March 2017. | |
Marina Erakovic (Croatian: Marina Eraković pronounced [ɛraːkoʋitɕ]) (born 6 March 1988) is a professional tennis player from New Zealand. Her career high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings are World No. 39 for singles, achieved on 7 May 2012, and World No. 25 in doubles, achieved on 24 June 2013. She has won one WTA singles title, at Memphis in February 2013.
Erakovic is the only New Zealander to have been in the top 100 singles players of the WTA in recent years. After four years in that group, she dropped to 103 after missing the 2014 Coupe Banque Nationale in Quebec, where she had been runner-up a year earlier. She bounced back to number 90 a week later, however, following her efforts at the Toray Pan Pacific Open. Her loss in the first round of doubles in the 2015 French Open dropped her out of the top 50 for doubles for the first time in over two years, and not defending her 2014 Topshelf Open doubles title dropped her ranking further to 72.
A knee injury in England in 2015 caused problems at Wimbledon, and ended her season completely after she had to withdraw from her first round match at the US Open. She finished the year ranked well out of the top 100 in both doubles and singles.
Erakovic was born in Split, Croatia (then part of Yugoslavia), and emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand, in 1994 as a 6-year-old with her family. She attended St Thomas's Primary School and Glendowie College in Auckland.
Erakovic and Monica Niculescu were the runners-up to Victoria Azarenka and Olga Govortsova (Belarusian spelling being Volha Havartsova) in the 2004 Wimbledon Championships girls' doubles, before Erakovic teamed with Michaëlla Krajicek to win the 2004 US Open girls' doubles title, beating Niculescu and her Romanian team-mate Mădălina Gojnea. Erakovic became the first player from New Zealand to win a Grand Slam title (Singles or Doubles) since James Greenhalgh and Steven Downs won the Boys' Doubles at Wimbledon and the French Open in 1993; before that, it was David Lewis, who won the 1981 Australian Open Boys' Doubles title in partnership with Australian Tony Withers. She then partnered Azarenka to an easy win in the 2005 Australian Open girls' doubles over Nikola Fraňková and Ágnes Szávay, and reunited with Niculescu to be runners-up in the 2005 Wimbledon Championships girls' doubles, defeated this time by Azarenka and Szávay.
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