WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Director of tennis programs and men’s head coach Geoff Young announced the signing of Mateusz Milton and Lorenzo Balducci, set to join the team in the fall for their freshmen campaign.
Lorenzo Balducci
Hometown: Monsummano, Italy
High School: Liceo Scientifico “Coluccio Salutati”
- Achieved a career-high ITF Junior world ranking of No. 91 (September 2025)
- Advanced to multiple top-tier ITF singles finals, including the J300 Pancevo (2025) and J200 Florence (2025)
- Reached the ITF J100 Liepaja singles final in 2024
- Captured the ITF J30 Ismailia singles title in 2024
- Won three ITF doubles titles, highlighted by the J200 Salsomaggiore Terme (2025) championship
- Claimed doubles titles at the J100 Palermo (2024) and J30 Cairo (2024)
- Reached additional ITF doubles finals at the J60 Bludenz (2024) and J30 Ismailia (2024)
- Intended major: Computer or Industrial Engineering
- Parents: Father, Daniele Balducci played tennis professionally, ranking as high as No. 180 in the world and mother, Alessia Arrigoni
- Brother to Marco, who played paddle and tennis as a varsity sport at Polytechnic University of Milan
Mateusz Miton
Hometown: Niepolomice, Malopolska, Poland
High School: John Paul II
- Finished runner-up in singles at the Polish National Championships U18 (Gdansk, 2025)
- Advanced to the doubles final at the ITF J60 Veli Losinj (2023)
- Represented Poland at the Tennis Europe Winter Cup U16 (Italy, 2023)
- Captured a doubles title at the ITF J4 Veli Losinj (2022)
- Finished runner-up in doubles at the ITF J4 Pescara (2022)
- Won the singles title at the Polish National Championships U16 (Torun, 2022)
- Competed at the European Junior Championships U14 (Czechia, 2021)
- Participated in the Tennis Europe Summer Cup U14 (France, 2021)
- Won the doubles title at the Polish National Championships U14 (Lodz, 2021)
- Finished runner-up in singles at the Polish National Championships U14 (Lodz, 2021)
- Intended major: History
- Parents are chess grandmaster Kamil and Agnieszka, sibling to Jakub