Marina Erakovic

After another tough doubles win Marina Erakovic is into the semifinals of the Bank of the West Classic WTA event in Stanford, California.

Teaming with Brit, Heather Watson for their first tournament in her career they beat second seeded Americans Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigal Spears 7-6 2-6 10-4 in the doubles quarter-finals.

In the semifinals Erakovic and Watson will play either Natalie Grandi(South Africa) and Vladimira Uhlirova(Czech Repbulic) or the team of Eleni Daniilidou(Greece) and Urszula Radwanska(Poland).

Erakovic is set to play her second round singles against Radwanska, (who she beat in the first round at Wimbledon two weeks ago) at approximately 6.30am (New Zealand time on Friday).

The Kiwi has a current WTA singles ranking of 50 while Radwanska is 57th.