Antonio Lining

Antonio Lining, nicknamed Nikoy, is a Filipino pool player, born on May 9, 1963, in Mindoro, and one of the few left-handed Asian players. He reached the semifinals of the WPA World Ten-Ball Championship in 2009 and the WPA World Nine-Ball Championship in 2010. His most notable early result was second place behind Francisco Bustamante at the 2000 Motolite International Nine-ball Tournament after beating Efren Reyes in the quarter-finals, and later that year he won the All Japan Championship nine-ball. With Bustamante he won gold in nine-ball doubles at the 2002 Busan Asian Games, and his achievements list runs from the 1989 Scratch Nine-ball Open to the 2024 Tokai Grand Prix.