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Babolat Ballistic Polymono 16 vs LaserFibre JB Tour 100 17g (1.25)

JB Tour 100 17g (1.25) leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where JB Tour 100 17g (1.25) is 62 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Babolat

Ballistic Polymono 16

Polyester · 16 ga

LaserFibre

JB Tour 100 17g (1.25)

Polyester · 17 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
21886th pct
21180th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4679th pct
4475th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
839th pct
8415th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
4.748th pct
4.645th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.40225th pct
0.52986th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.08534th pct
0.11479th pct

Bars are percentile against all 791 strings, and the marked side is the one that measures better, which is not always the one you want. A firmer bed is worse for your elbow and better for your control, and no measurement knows which of those you came for.

Which one wins, by problem

Each string's standing on the site's rankings, out of every measured string in the database. This is where a comparison stops being arithmetic and starts being a decision.

Swapping between them: what tension?

Bed stiffness is published at one reference tension, so the only honest conversion is to scale it. These are starting points from 52 lb, not prescriptions. The calculator takes your own tension.

Coming from Ballistic Polymono 16 at 52 lb

String JB Tour 100 17g (1.25) at 53.7 lb 24.4 kg

Coming from JB Tour 100 17g (1.25) at 52 lb

String Ballistic Polymono 16 at 50.4 lb 22.9 kg

Hybrid: what if you used both?

Estimated, not measured. No hybrid combination has been tested as a bed. These figures are the two strings' own lab measurements weighted by how much of the bed each one actually is. Treat them as a guide to which way a pairing moves, never as lab data.

Ballistic Polymono 16 mains / JB Tour 100 17g (1.25) crosses

Stiffness83rd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss78th pct · 1 measured
Energy return11th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential47th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite38th pct · 1 measured
String friction52nd pct · 1 measured

JB Tour 100 17g (1.25) mains / Ballistic Polymono 16 crosses

Stiffness82nd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss76th pct · 1 measured
Energy return12th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential47th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite81st pct · 1 measured
String friction71st pct · 1 measured

Open this in the hybrid builder

Which goes dead first?

Estimated from tension loss, which is the only thing the database measures about ageing. This is when the bed stops playing the way you strung it, not when the string breaks.

Ballistic Polymono 16

~16 hours of play

JB Tour 100 17g (1.25)

~18 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Babolat Ballistic Polymono 16 Polyester16find21846834.70.4020.085
LaserFibre JB Tour 100 17g (1.25) Polyester17$14.9521144844.60.5290.114

Add a third string Ballistic Polymono 16 in full JB Tour 100 17g (1.25) in full