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Head to head

Babolat Pro Hurricane Tour 17 vs Pacific Poly Force Xtreme 16L

They split the measurements 3–3. The widest gap is ball bite, where Poly Force Xtreme 16L is 48 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

Pacific

Poly Force Xtreme 16L

Polyester · 16L ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
21583rd pct
21886th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4576th pct
4067th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8414th pct
8415th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
5.262nd pct
5.056th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.40225th pct
0.48873rd pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.07819th pct
0.09861st 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 Pro Hurricane Tour 17 at 52 lb

String Poly Force Xtreme 16L at 53.6 lb 24.3 kg

Coming from Poly Force Xtreme 16L at 52 lb

String Pro Hurricane Tour 17 at 50.7 lb 23.0 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 / Poly Force Xtreme 16L crosses

Stiffness84th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss72nd pct · 1 measured
Energy return15th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential61st pct · 1 measured
Ball bite33rd pct · 1 measured
String friction30th pct · 1 measured

Poly Force Xtreme 16L mains / Pro Hurricane Tour 17 crosses

Stiffness85th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss69th pct · 1 measured
Energy return15th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential58th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite68th pct · 1 measured
String friction53rd 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

Poly Force Xtreme 16L

~20 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
Pacific Poly Force Xtreme 16L Polyester16Lfind21840845.00.4880.098

Add a third string Pro Hurricane Tour 17 in full Poly Force Xtreme 16L in full