So how is she feeling coming into this year?
"It's never going to be easy. It's just the way it is," Erakovic said. "Every year, I will try to deal with it the best way I can. I [also] try to focus on the positive. I get a home tournament and a lot of support here, which is great.
"Every year, you are super-nervous at the start. [But] once you get going, you feel that crowd and it lifts you. It's a great thing to have."
Erakovic will also have a familiar opponent, drawing her new doubles partner Monica Puig in the first round. "It happens more than you think," says Erakovic of facing her team-mate. "It's not the first time this has happened to me and I'm sure it's not the first for her, either. It's a bit funny, actually, but it's also just like any other match.
"When you go out for your singles match, you focus and say, 'good morning'. You might make a joke. After that it's done and you carry on."
Erakovic, who has previously faced doubles partners Elena Vesnina and Monica Niculescu in singles, says that inside knowledge helps - but only so much.
"She knows how I play and I know how she plays but match-day is a lot different."
Puig is a tough proposition - the world No 59 is seen as a player on the rise - but Erakovic is also in good shape after a month-long off-season in Barcelona. If she passes the first hurdle, she could face fourth seed Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova in the second round and Roberta Vinci and Kirsten Flipkens are also in her quarter of the draw.
Yesterday's draw was kind to top seed Caroline Wozniacki, who got a qualifier.
The best match-up of the first round will see world No 14 Sara Errani against Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova, who has been ranked as high as fifth in the world.
