The whole database
Every string, plotted
All 784 strings carrying both measurements, on one chart. Every percentile the rest of the site quotes is a position in this cloud. This is what the cloud actually looks like, and why some combinations of qualities simply are not available at any price.
Each dot is one string. The faint cross-hairs are the database median on each axis, the line every percentile quoted elsewhere on the site is measured against. Marked points are the four strings furthest into each corner: landmarks, not recommendations.
Axes are clipped to the 1st–99th percentile so the field is legible rather than squashed against one outlier. 13 strings sit outside that range and are drawn on the edge: Babolat RPM Team 16 Black, Babolat Revenge 16, Luxilon 4G 16 (1.30), Luxilon 4G 16L (1.25), Luxilon 4G S 15, Luxilon Natural Gut 1.25 and 7 more.
What the corners mean
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Softer + sheds tension faster
Furthest into this corner: Double AR Twice Shark (1.25) Polyester
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Firmer + sheds tension faster
Furthest into this corner: Kirschbaum Long Life 15 Polyester
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Softer + holds its tension better
Furthest into this corner: Pacific Prime Gut Orange Bull 16L (1.25) Gut
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Firmer + holds its tension better
Furthest into this corner: Dunlop Explosive Speed 17 (1.25) Polyester
The empty regions matter as much as the full ones. Where this plot has no dots, no manufacturer has managed that combination. It is not that nobody has thought to sell it.
Plot something else
- Comfort × Tension hold stiffness against tension loss
- Power × Comfort energy return against stiffness
- Power × Tension hold energy return against tension loss
- Power × Spin energy return against spin potential
- Spin × Comfort spin potential against stiffness
- Spin × Tension hold spin potential against tension loss
- Ball bite × Comfort ball bite against stiffness
- Ball bite × Tension hold ball bite against tension loss
- Ball bite × Power ball bite against energy return
- Ball bite × Spin ball bite against spin potential
- Ball bite × Snapback ball bite against snapback
- Snapback × Comfort snapback against stiffness
- Snapback × Tension hold snapback against tension loss
- Snapback × Power snapback against energy return
- Snapback × Spin snapback against spin potential