Marina Erakovic hits Florida boot camp

       This 2013 a 24-year-old New Zealander Marina Erakovic spends so much time out travelling the world in the name of her game, she's always regarded her Decembers back home in Auckland as being a bit special.
       It's when she gets to touch base again with family and friends, sleep in her own bed, go to her favourite cafes, and at the same time reset her goals, fine-tune her game a little, and work on her fitness. 
Erakovic will leave tomorrow to undertake a three-week training camp with her coach, Christian Zahalka, in Florida.
       It will be an intensive, tennis-heavy period of preparation, where she will work as hard as she ever as ahead of a new campaign, before returning to New Zealand just in time for Christmas.
"This is different, this is the first time I've done this," Erakovic told the Sunday Star-Times. "I usually do my off-season training here but the tennis is just missing, I can do as much running, or hills and stairs as I want here. But the tennis side is really lacking. "I don't have the players, I don't have my coach, who's going to be over there. This is going to be important and I think it will be beneficial."