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Babolat Pro Hurricane Tour 17 vs MSV Focus Evo 16

Pro Hurricane Tour 17 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is stiffness, where Pro Hurricane Tour 17 is 9 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Babolat

Pro Hurricane Tour 17

Polyester · 17 ga

MSV

Focus Evo 16

Polyester · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
21583rd pct
22692nd pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4576th pct
4475th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8414th pct
8519th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
5.262nd pct
4.954th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.40225th pct
0.39420th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.07819th 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 17 at 52 lb

String Focus Evo 16 at 48.4 lb 22.0 kg

Coming from Focus Evo 16 at 52 lb

String Pro Hurricane Tour 17 at 55.6 lb 25.2 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 17 mains / Focus Evo 16 crosses

Stiffness87th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss76th pct · 1 measured
Energy return16th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential61st pct · 1 measured
Ball bite24th pct · 1 measured
String friction19th pct · 1 measured

Focus Evo 16 mains / Pro Hurricane Tour 17 crosses

Stiffness89th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss76th pct · 1 measured
Energy return17th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential55th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite21st 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 17

~17 hours of play

Focus Evo 16

~17 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Babolat Pro Hurricane Tour 17 Polyester17find21545845.20.4020.078
MSV Focus Evo 16 Polyester16find22644854.90.3940.080

Add a third string Pro Hurricane Tour 17 in full Focus Evo 16 in full