35 Ekaterina Makarova before losing to No. After losing in the final to Timea Bacsinszky, she then played another ITF event in Moscow, where she lost in the final to Aliaksandra Sasnovich.

She played the rest of the year at ITF tournaments, summing four titles from the five finals she reached, entering the world's top 250 for the first time at the age of 18. Kontaveit returned to Estonia to play in the Fed Cup, seemingly still suffering from illness as she put in poor performances and struggled to beat much lower ranked opponents. As a qualifier she also entered into Madrid and Rome, reaching the quarterfinals in the latter, which was her first Premier 5 quarterfinal. Kontaveit then headed to La Marsa in Tunisia where she lost to Romina Oprandi at the semifinal stage. Kontaveit won the Estonian Championships in 2009 and again in 2010, being the youngest player ever in Estonia to do so. 19 seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. © Eurosport, a Discovery Company 2020 – All rights reserved She reached her maiden Grand Slam quarterfinal at the 2020 Australian Open. In July, Kontaveit played the President's Cup, a $100k event in Astana, Kazakhstan where she lost in the first round of qualifying to top seed Sun Shengnan. Follow live Naomi Osaka vs Anett Kontaveit coverage at Yahoo! En route she scored wins over sixth seed Kristýna Plíšková, former Wimbledon semifinalist Kirsten Flipkens, Carina Witthöft and seventh seed Lesia Tsurenko. Nevertheless the run to the final saw Kontaveit return to the Top 20 at number 20. [7] However, with her win in the fourth round against Swiatek, she became the first Estonian, male or female, to reach a quarterfinal at the Australian Open,[8] and with this tournament's result she moved up nine places in the WTA rankings to 22. Click here to find out more info. Since hiring Nigel Sears as her coach she has improved her service action adding more power and variety to it, such as utilising the kick serve which has helped save break points against opponents. She lost in the second round to Jana Čepelová. She defeated Mona Barthel to face Maria Sakkari in the second round. [4], At the Australian Open, she defeated Aleksandra Krunić and Mona Barthel to advance to the third round where she faced world No. Fiona Ferro won the first tour-level event of tennis' comeback from the coronavirus. Despite Kontaveit's solid performances, Estonia was relegated to the Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone II. [3], At her first grass tournament of 2017, the Ricoh Open, Kontaveit reached her second final of the year. Nevertheless the run to the final saw Kontaveit return to the Top 20 at number 20. At the US Open she lost in the first round to Katarina Siniaková. At Wimbledon, she was the 20th seed, and defeated Shelby Rogers in the first round to face Heather Watson. Kontaveit lost in the final round of qualifying for the French Open. She then qualified and made the semifinals in Ilkley, beating players including Zhu Lin, Jeļena Ostapenko and Wang Yafan. In the second set, Garcia got off to an early lead by winning the longest game of the match, a four-deuce battle in which she saved two break points of her own. Kontaveit has won one singles title on the WTA Tour as well as eleven singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

I feel really good about my game.". She received a bye into the second round of the China Open, after reaching the final of Wuhan. She defeated her in two sets to face the top seed and world No. After this, she reached the semifinals of the French Open girls' singles, losing to eventual champion Annika Beck. Finalist (5): 2020 - Palermo; 2019 - Stuttgart; 2018 - Wuhan; 2017 - Bien/Bienne, Gstaad. However, she was not able to avenge her prior defeat to her, falling to the eventual champion in straight sets 3-6 4-6.