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Babolat VS Natural ThermoGut 16 Touch vs Wilson Natural Gut 16

VS Natural ThermoGut 16 Touch leads on 5 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is string friction, where VS Natural ThermoGut 16 Touch is 15 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Babolat

VS Natural ThermoGut 16 Touch

Gut · 16 ga

Wilson

Natural Gut 16

Gut · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
961st pct
972nd pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
1913th pct
179th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9698th pct
9598th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
2.76th pct
1.30th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.3402nd pct
0.3301st pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.12485th pct
0.245100th 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 VS Natural ThermoGut 16 Touch at 52 lb

String Natural Gut 16 at 50.7 lb 23.0 kg

Coming from Natural Gut 16 at 52 lb

String VS Natural ThermoGut 16 Touch at 52.6 lb 23.9 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.

VS Natural ThermoGut 16 Touch mains / Natural Gut 16 crosses

Stiffness2nd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss12th pct · 1 measured
Energy return98th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential4th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite2nd pct · 1 measured
String friction94th pct · 1 measured

Natural Gut 16 mains / VS Natural ThermoGut 16 Touch crosses

Stiffness2nd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss11th pct · 1 measured
Energy return98th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential0th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite1st pct · 1 measured
String friction99th 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.

VS Natural ThermoGut 16 Touch

~36 hours of play

Natural Gut 16

~37 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Babolat VS Natural ThermoGut 16 Touch Gut16find9619962.70.3400.124
Wilson Natural Gut 16 Gut16$67.509717951.30.3300.245

Add a third string VS Natural ThermoGut 16 Touch in full Natural Gut 16 in full