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At the , she was seeded 22nd and defeated Sorana Cîrstea in three sets to reach the third round against the 16th seed Elise Mertens, losing again in three sets. Her ranking would drop a few spots, because she was defending semifinal points from the 2019 edition of the tournament. Her next tournament was the where she was the 2019 finalist. In her first-round match, she defeated a qualifier, German teenager , to set up a match against the world No. 4 and third seed, . She upset the American to reach the quarterfinals, a feat she had achieved in her four previous main-draw appearances at the tournament. In the quarterfinals, she lost to Aryna Sabalenka in three sets. Shortly after the tournament Kontaveit and announced an amicable coaching split after three years together.
In Australia, Kontaveit was placed in hard quarantine with 72 other players due to the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning she wasn't allowed to practice for the upcoming Australian Open and had to stay in her hotel room for 14 days. She played the WTA 500 Grampians Trophy where she defeated , and Maria Sakkari to reach the final against American . However, the final wasn't played due to scheduling difficulties. Seeded 21st at the , she defeated Aliaksandra Sasnovich in straight sets, and Heather Watson in three to reach the third round. She then was defeated by Shelby Rogers in straight sets, despite holding a 4–1 lead in the first set. Next was the Middle Eastern swing. At the WTA 500 , she defeated seventh seed and 2021 Australian Open finalist in 57 minutes to progress. She then beat former world No. 1 and three-time Grand Slam champion, Angelique Kerber, in an hour, to reach the quarterfinals where she lost in three sets to the eventual champion, . At the WTA 1000 Dubai Championships, she defeated and Sorana Cîrstea to reach the third round. She then lost to third-seeded Aryna Sabalenka, in straight sets.
She then played at the , where she defeated Caroline Garcia, in straight sets, in the first round, before falling to in the second. At the French Open, Kontaveit again faced Garcia in the first round. Unfortunately, Garcia managed to clinch her revenge against the 17th seed, who suffered a disappointing loss in three sets, culminating the season. Her final event of the season was the Ostrava Open where she defeated in three sets before losing to Sara Sorribes Tormo, in straight sets.
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In Madrid, she defeated Serbian qualifier to reach the second, where she was defeated by the 16th seed Maria Sakkari, in straight sets. She withdrew from the Italian Open due to exhaustion, and did not play another lead up clay-court tournament in the weeks till Roland Garros. Seeded 30th at the , she defeated in three sets to progress to the second round where she defeated in two sets to reach the third round. There, she lost to the defending champion and eighth seed Iga Świątek. Her next tournament was the WTA 500 grass-court event in . She defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova and then third seed , her second top-10 win of the season and 13th overall, to reach the quarterfinals. There, she beat again Golubic in three tough sets to reach her second semifinal of the season against . She reached the final after Giorgi's retirement but lost to . At Wimbledon, she was defeated in the first round by Markéta Vondroušová, in three sets.
Kontaveit returned to the tour at , the first WTA tournament during the coronavirus pandemic. She was seeded fourth and defeated in her first match . In the second round, she defeated in three sets to face in the quarterfinals. She also beat the Italian wildcard in three sets to reach her first semifinal of the season against top seed . She defeated the Croatian in two sets to advance to her first final of the season. There, she was defeated by Frenchwoman in two sets despite serving for the second set. Nevertheless, the run to the final saw Kontaveit return to the top 20.
Kontaveit began the season at the defeating Hsieh Su-wei but losing to sixth seed Kiki Bertens in three sets. At , she lost to Pavlyuchenkova in the first round, in straight sets. As the 28th seed at the , she defeated and Sorribes Tormo and then crushed Belinda Bencic, losing only one game, to reach the fourth round for the second time in her career. She then defeated Iga Świątek in three sets to give Kontaveit a place in the quarterfinals where she lost to Simona Halep. However, with her win in the fourth round against Iga Świątek, she became the first Estonian, male or female, to reach a quarterfinal at the Australian Open, and with this tournament's result she moved up nine places in the WTA rankings to 22. She next went to where she made the quarterfinals but lost to Petra Martić.
She started a coaching trial with former player , ex-coach of Aryna Sabalenka. At the she was defeated by world No. 20, Ons Jabeur, in the first round. Her results improved the following week at the WTA 250 tournament. As the second seed she defeated , Caroline Garcia, Kateřina Siniaková and Sara Sorribes Tormo to reach her third final of the season against . She defeated Begu in straight sets to win her second career title. Seeded 28th at the , she reached the third round for the third time at a Grand Slam championship for the season where she lost again to seventh seed Iga Świątek.
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Kontaveit then moved onto the Sunshine Double tournaments at Indian Wells and Miami. Seeded 21st, she reached the fourth round at Indian losing to Karolína Plíšková in three sets. She then made her breakthrough at the Miami Open. Seeded again 21st, she defeated , Ajla Tomljanović and Indian Wells champion to reach her first Premier Mandatory quarterfinal. She defeated 27th seed despite trailing in the third set. She then faced Ashleigh Barty but lost in straight sets. These results propelled her ranking from No. 20 to 14 and made her the highest ranked Estonian player in history, male or female, and surpassed compatriot Kaia Kanepi's career-high rank of No. 15.
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At her first clay-court event of the season, she was seeded eighth; at the , she defeated in two sets to face Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in a rematch of last years quarterfinal. She defeated her in straight sets to reach the quarterfinals for the third year in a row and face Victoria Azarenka, who retired in the third set. This meant, she reached the semifinals for the second year running and was due to face world No. 1, Naomi Osaka. However, Osaka withdrew with an abdominal injury handing Kontaveit a walkover to the final to face Petra Kvitová. She lost the final in two sets.
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Kontaveit started the year by reaching the quarterfinals of the Brisbane International beating Suarez Navarro and Kvitová before losing to eventual finalist Lesia Tsurenko. She then lost to Elise Mertens in the second round of the Sydney International. Seeded 20th at the , she won against Sara Sorribes Tormo and lost in the second round to Aliaksandra Sasnovich.
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At the Rogers Cup, she lost to Petra Kvitová in straight sets, and lost in the third round of the Cincinnati Open to eventual winner . At the , she lost in the first round to Katarina Siniaková.