In December, she was runner-up to Valentina Ivanov in the singles at the New Zealand Tennis Championships,[1] and won the doubles title with Erin Routliffe.

[3] Hourigan made no mistakes in her run to her second ITF doubles title, in Singapore three weeks later, this time with Indonesia's Aldila Sutjiadi as her partner.

[4] Hourigan's third ITF doubles title came just three weeks later, in Surprise, Arizona, with star American youngster Coco Gauff on her side of the net.

They made amends by winning the corresponding tournament the following week, beating Emily Appleton and Catherine Harrison in the final[10] after Sutjiadi had thrashed Hourigan in their singles semifinal.

Their last tournament together was the following week in Hong Kong, where they were beaten in the semifinals by Tere-Apisah and Junri Namigata, in a match where several crucial line calls were disputed by one team or the other.

The next stop for Hourigan was the Fed Cup in Malaysia, where she had two double-bagel wins in singles before losing in three sets to Eudice Chong from Hong Kong.

A family bereavement cut short Hourigan's European tour, and she didn't play again for nearly two months, resuming at Redding, California, in September.

Two tournaments in Texas ended Hourigan's year, she and Katherine Sebov reaching the doubles semifinals in Dallas, but they had to default through injury.

The next stop was an ITF tournament in Burnie, Tasmania, where she again lost in the first round of singles, this time after having to qualify, but made the semifinals of the doubles with Destanee Aiava.

In the first tournament she lost again in the first round of singles, but she and Berfu Cengiz were beaten in the doubles final by Samantha Murray Sharan and Fanny Stollár.

Warming up for the new season with a series of exhibition matches in Auckland, Hourigan flew to Egypt in late March to resume her ITF career in Sharm El Sheikh.