Dunlop S-Gut 16 (1.32) vs Prince Synthetic Gut 18 Duraflex

Measured, side by side

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.

• More spin and shape

  S-Gut 16 (1.32)586th

  Synthetic Gut 18 Duraflex611th

• Easier on my arm

  S-Gut 16 (1.32)149th

  Synthetic Gut 18 Duraflex198th

• More control, less launch

  S-Gut 16 (1.32)624th

  Synthetic Gut 18 Duraflex586th

• More power and depth

  S-Gut 16 (1.32)183rd

  Synthetic Gut 18 Duraflex230th

• Plays the same for longer

  S-Gut 16 (1.32)59th

  Synthetic Gut 18 Duraflex139th

• Lasts longer before it breaks

  S-Gut 16 (1.32)524th

  Synthetic Gut 18 Duraflex702nd

• Best feel and touch

  S-Gut 16 (1.32)148th

  Synthetic Gut 18 Duraflex215th

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.

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.

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.

Both strings in full

Add a third string S-Gut 16 (1.32) in full Synthetic Gut 18 Duraflex in full