Erakovic missed the next week of tournaments, opting for additional practice ahead of the first Premier Mandatory tournament of the year, the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells. For the first time ever, she progressed past the first round. After a scrappy win over wildcard entry Grace Min, she came up against 27th seed Timea Bacsinszky, who had won her two previous tournaments in Mexico. Erakovic got the only break of service to take the first set, but from there on her second service let her down. Unable to gain even one break point in the second set, she was unable to convert either of the two she received in the third set, the final score being 4–6, 6–3, 6–2 to Bacsinszky. In the doubles, she was reunited with Arantxa Parra Santonja, but once again they came up against high seeds in the first round. This time the stumbling blocks were the Spanish fifth seeds in Garbiñe Muguruza and Carla Suárez Navarro, who overpowered the lower-ranked pair 6–1, 6–4, in just over an hour. Once again the second service was the bogey, as they won only four out of 19 during the match.