[8] In October 2016, she won her first match on the WTA Tour, defeating Anastasija Sevastova in the first round of Kremlin Cup.

In January 2017, she made Grand Slam debut at the Australian Open through qualifying, where she defeated Monica Niculescu in the first round before losing to Karolína Plíšková in the second.

[6] In February 2018, she reached the third round of the Premier 5 Qatar Open, defeating Elena Vesnina and Kristina Mladenovic, before she lost to world No.

[11] In August 2019, she reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal in singles at the Bronx Open, where she lost to Wang Qiang.

Despite not producing good results in singles during the season, Blinkova started year with her first career top 10 win, defeating Belinda Bencic in the first round of the Shenzhen Open.

[8] When tennis came back (after six month absence of the WTA Tour due to COVID-19 pandemic outbreak[18]) in August, she first played at the Lexington Challenger, where she reached the semifinals in doubles alongside Vera Zvonareva.

[8] Things even went even better at the US Open where Blinkova and Kudermetova reached the semifinals but lost to eventual champions, Laura Siegemund and Vera Zvonareva.

[20] Blinkova qualified for the main draw at the Italian Open and defeated Aliona Bolsova in a final-set tiebreak to reach the third round.

[23] With compatriot Anastasia Potapova she reached her third tour doubles final at the Phillip Island Trophy, losing to Ankita Raina and Kamilla Rakhimova.

[27] Blinkova reached the doubles semifinals of the Cincinnati Open with Aliaksandra Sasnovich, defeating top seeds Hsieh Su-wei/Elise Mertens in the second round.

[32] As a qualifier, Blinkova won her first career singles title at the Transylvania Open, defeating Jasmine Paolini in the final.

[33][34][35] Blinkova defeated Ysaline Bonaventure[36] and fifth seed Caroline Garcia,[37] her first top-5 win, to reach the third round of the French Open for the second time.

The 42-point match-tiebreak supplanted the 38-point tiebreaks played by Lesia Tsurenko and Ana Bogdan the previous summer at Wimbledon and by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Andy Roddick 20-18 at the 2007 Australian Open.

[40] In September, partnering with Mayar Sherif, Blinkova won the doubles at the Jasmin Open, defeating Alina Korneeva and Anastasia Zakharova in the final.

[41] The following month she was runner-up in the singles at the WTA 125 Abierto Tampico in Mexico, losing to Marina Stakusic in the final.