Forty years of international tennis in an extraordinary photographic journey: tennis as an art of the body and the gaze. With Flying Racquets. Oltre la rete (Beyond the Net), Allemandi presents a new monograph dedicated to one of the greatest interpreters of contemporary sports photography: Ray Giubilo, official photographer of the most prestigious international tournaments on the ATP and WTA circuits. Emotions, successes, and disappointments, “the thing that strikes you most,” explains Michele Coppola, President of Società Editrice Allemandi, to LaPresse, "is this balance between the story of athletic gestures, some of which are truly spectacular, and a trait that seems almost artistic. In addition to Giubilo's ability to shoot during matches, rather than posed shots, he has immortalized athletes over the years with a naturalness and aesthetic ability that is typical of art books." Through approximately 150 images selected from forty years of work, Giubilo constructs a visual narrative that goes beyond sports reporting: a journey into the heart of tennis, where technique meets grace, and the tension of the gesture is transformed into pure emotion. From Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, and Serena Williams to the new protagonists of our time, Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Jasmine Paolini, and Aryna Sabalenka, Giubilo's photographs capture the complexity of contemporary tennis: power, elegance, solitude, joy. Not just portraits of champions, but portraits of humanity, captured in moments of concentration, defeat, and rebirth. With his lucid and poetic photography, Ray Giubilo restores the soul of the game, the one that cannot be read in the scores but only in the looks.