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Babolat RPM Blast 15L (1.35) vs Tecnifibre Pro Red Code Wax 17

They split the measurements 3–3. The widest gap is energy return, where Pro Red Code Wax 17 is 15 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Babolat

RPM Blast 15L (1.35)

Polyester · 15L ga

Tecnifibre

Pro Red Code Wax 17

Polyester · 17 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
23796th pct
23696th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
3354th pct
2945th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8629th pct
8844th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
7.393rd pct
6.586th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.52986th pct
0.50379th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.0727th pct
0.07717th 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 RPM Blast 15L (1.35) at 52 lb

String Pro Red Code Wax 17 at 52.2 lb 23.7 kg

Coming from Pro Red Code Wax 17 at 52 lb

String RPM Blast 15L (1.35) at 51.8 lb 23.5 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.

RPM Blast 15L (1.35) mains / Pro Red Code Wax 17 crosses

Stiffness96th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss50th pct · 1 measured
Energy return35th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential92nd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite86th pct · 1 measured
String friction10th pct · 1 measured

Pro Red Code Wax 17 mains / RPM Blast 15L (1.35) crosses

Stiffness96th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss48th pct · 1 measured
Energy return39th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential88th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite80th pct · 1 measured
String friction14th 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.

RPM Blast 15L (1.35)

~24 hours of play

Pro Red Code Wax 17

~26 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Babolat RPM Blast 15L (1.35) Polyester15L$22.0023733867.30.5290.072
Tecnifibre Pro Red Code Wax 17 Polyester17find23629886.50.5030.077

Add a third string RPM Blast 15L (1.35) in full Pro Red Code Wax 17 in full