Born | Mindoro, Philippines | 9 May 1963||||||||||||||
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Nickname | "Nikoy" | ||||||||||||||
Pool games | Nine-ball, Ten-ball | ||||||||||||||
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Antonio Lining (born May 9, 1963, in Mindoro, Philippines) is a Filipino pool player, nicknamed "Nikoy". He is one of the few left-handed Asian players. [1] Lining reached the semifinals of the WPA World Ten-Ball Championship in 2009 and the WPA World Nine-Ball Championship in 2010.
Lining's most notable appearance was in the Motolite International Nine-ball Tournament in 2000, where he finished second to Francisco Bustamante, having beaten Efren Reyes in the quarter-finals. [2] Also in 2000, Lining won the All Japan Championship Nine-ball, beating Chao Fong-pang in the final.
At the 2002 Busan Asian Games, Lining and Bustamante won the gold medal at the nine-ball doubles event. [3]
Between 1992 and 2017, Lining has played in one or more of the All Japan Championship (Nine Ball), U.S. Open Championship (Nine Ball) and the World Pool Championship (Nine Ball). [4]