Erakovic began her campaign at the Wimbledon Championships with a singles match against 95th-ranked Yulia Putintseva. In one of the longest sets she had ever played, only three games had been completed after 26 minutes. The first two took six and eight minutes, and then Erakovic took 12 minutes to serve her second and fourth games (20 and 18 points respectively) as every game went with serve through to six-all after an hour and 11 minutes. The tie-break took a further nine minutes, with Erakovic taking a 5–2 lead before Putintseva stormed back with five successive points to win the set. With Putintseva serving first, the second set also went with serve for the first eleven games. Erakovic then blew a 30-15 lead with three backhand unforced errors to lose the set and the match 6–7, 5–7. She had committed 43 unforced errors, as well as serving five double faults, compared with 29 unforced errors and no double-faults from her opponent.