Billiards: Lining, Kiamco advance to Final 16

MANILA,Nov. 29 (PNA) -- Filipinos Antonio “Nickoy” Lining and Warren “Warrior” Kiamco cruised into the round-of-16 of the on-going second World Ten Ball Championship Sunday at the World Trade Center in Pasay City.

International Master Marlon Bernardino said Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro native Lining stamped his class over Japanese Naoyuki Ooi, 9-7, while Kiamco of Pasil, Cebu ousted former World 9-Ball champion Thorsten Hohmann of Germany, 9-5, in the round-of-32 match-up.

Bernardino reported that Lining, who is fresh from a runner-up finish to eventual champion and countryman Francisco “Django” Bustamante in the Filipino dominated All Japan 9-Ball Championships event recently, will meet compatriot Jomar de Ocampo in the next round.

De Ocampo brought down Anh Tuan Nguyen of Vietnam, 9-5, while Kiamco, who settled third in the Filipino dominated All Japan 9-Ball Championships will square off with reigning World 9-Ball champion Daryl Peach of Great Britain, 9-7 winner over Satoshi Kawabata of Japan.

Sharing the limelight is Butuan City pride Elvis Calasang, who nipped Filipino-Indonesian Alwi, 9-7, to face Ruslan Chinakhov, who dealt Jundel Mazon, 9-3, in the US$ 60,000 first place event.

Meanwhile, another ex-World 9-ball ruler and back-to-back US open titlist Mika Immonen of Finland and Nick van den Berg of the Netherlands hurdled their respective assignments to face each other in the round-of-16.