Head to head

Dunlop Juice 16 (1.31) vs Luxilon Savage 16/1.27

Juice 16 (1.31) leads on 5 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is stiffness, where Juice 16 (1.31) is 12 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Dunlop

Juice 16 (1.31)

Polyester · 16 ga

Luxilon

Savage 16/1.27

Polyester · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
21684th pct
23496th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4885th pct
4680th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8524th pct
8415th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
3.621st pct
3.416th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.41433rd pct
0.39923rd pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.11580th pct
0.11781st 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 Juice 16 (1.31) at 52 lb

String Savage 16/1.27 at 43.8 lb 19.9 kg

Coming from Savage 16/1.27 at 52 lb

String Juice 16 (1.31) at 59.2 lb 26.9 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.

Juice 16 (1.31) mains / Savage 16/1.27 crosses

Stiffness90th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss83rd pct · 1 measured
Energy return19th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential19th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite30th pct · 1 measured
String friction80th pct · 1 measured

Savage 16/1.27 mains / Juice 16 (1.31) crosses

Stiffness92nd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss81st pct · 1 measured
Energy return18th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential17th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite24th pct · 1 measured
String friction81st 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.

Juice 16 (1.31)

~14 hours of play

Savage 16/1.27

~16 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Dunlop Juice 16 (1.31) Polyester16find21648853.60.4140.115
Luxilon Savage 16/1.27 Polyester16find23446843.40.3990.117

Add a third string Juice 16 (1.31) in full Savage 16/1.27 in full