Babolat Hurricane Feel 16 vs Babolat Hurricane Feel 17

Measured, side by side

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.

• More spin and shape

  Hurricane Feel 16404th

  Hurricane Feel 17463rd

• Easier on my arm

  Hurricane Feel 16715th

  Hurricane Feel 17725th

• More control, less launch

  Hurricane Feel 1690th

  Hurricane Feel 1776th

• More power and depth

  Hurricane Feel 16537th

  Hurricane Feel 17600th

• Plays the same for longer

  Hurricane Feel 16389th

  Hurricane Feel 17417th

• Lasts longer before it breaks

  Hurricane Feel 16118th

  Hurricane Feel 17279th

• Best feel and touch

  Hurricane Feel 16543rd

  Hurricane Feel 17603rd

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.

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.

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.

Both strings in full

Add a third string Hurricane Feel 16 in full Hurricane Feel 17 in full