World No 2 Jannik Sinner survived a scare from France's Terence Atmane to book his place in the China Open quarter-finals after coming through 6-4 5-7 6-0 on Saturday.

The Italian improved his record in Beijing to 11-1 as he marched into the last eight, where he will meet Hungary's Fabian Marozsan.

Sinner made a good start, winning the first set fairly comfortably after breaking Atamane's serve in the third game, but his opponent came back strongly as he broke in the final game of the second set to take it 7-5.

However, Atmane started to struggle with cramps at the back end of the encounter, allowing Sinner to race through the third set without dropping a game as he won in two hours and 21 minutes.

Fitness and consistency helped Sinner prevail as he won the match at the first time of a

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