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Babolat FiberTour 16 vs Pacific Premium Power X 16L

FiberTour 16 leads on 3 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where FiberTour 16 is 8 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Babolat

FiberTour 16

Nylon · 16 ga

Pacific

Premium Power X 16L

Nylon · 16L ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
16330th pct
16634th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
2328th pct
2433rd pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9493rd pct
9493rd pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
3.111th pct
3.314th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.38716th pct
0.3708th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.12384th pct
0.11177th 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 FiberTour 16 at 52 lb

String Premium Power X 16L at 48.5 lb 22.0 kg

Coming from Premium Power X 16L at 52 lb

String FiberTour 16 at 57.0 lb 25.9 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.

FiberTour 16 mains / Premium Power X 16L crosses

Stiffness31st pct · 1 measured
Tension loss30th pct · 1 measured
Energy return93rd pct · 1 measured
Spin potential12th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite15th pct · 1 measured
String friction83rd pct · 1 measured

Premium Power X 16L mains / FiberTour 16 crosses

Stiffness32nd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss32nd pct · 1 measured
Energy return93rd pct · 1 measured
Spin potential14th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite9th pct · 1 measured
String friction79th 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.

FiberTour 16

~32 hours of play

Premium Power X 16L

~30 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Babolat FiberTour 16 Nylon16find16323943.10.3870.123
Pacific Premium Power X 16L Nylon16Lfind16624943.30.3700.111

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