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Head to head

Babolat Pro Hurricane Tour 16 vs Kirschbaum Super Smash 16/1.30

They split the measurements 3–3. The widest gap is ball bite, where Super Smash 16/1.30 is 19 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Babolat

Pro Hurricane Tour 16

Polyester · 16 ga

Kirschbaum

Super Smash 16/1.30

Polyester · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
22893rd pct
22289th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4680th pct
5189th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8413th pct
814th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
5.159th pct
5.365th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.39621st pct
0.42440th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.07717th pct
0.08023rd pct

Bars are percentile against all 788 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 Pro Hurricane Tour 16 at 52 lb

String Super Smash 16/1.30 at 54.9 lb 24.9 kg

Coming from Super Smash 16/1.30 at 52 lb

String Pro Hurricane Tour 16 at 49.0 lb 22.2 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.

Pro Hurricane Tour 16 mains / Super Smash 16/1.30 crosses

Stiffness91st pct · 1 measured
Tension loss84th pct · 1 measured
Energy return7th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential61st pct · 1 measured
Ball bite24th pct · 1 measured
String friction18th pct · 1 measured

Super Smash 16/1.30 mains / Pro Hurricane Tour 16 crosses

Stiffness91st pct · 1 measured
Tension loss87th pct · 1 measured
Energy return7th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential64th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite37th pct · 1 measured
String friction22nd 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.

Pro Hurricane Tour 16

~16 hours of play

Super Smash 16/1.30

~13 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Babolat Pro Hurricane Tour 16 Polyester16find22846845.10.3960.077
Kirschbaum Super Smash 16/1.30 Polyester16find22251815.30.4240.080

Add a third string Pro Hurricane Tour 16 in full Super Smash 16/1.30 in full