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Head to head

Dunlop Tour Performance 16 vs Gosen Nanosilver 17

Nanosilver 17 leads on 5 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is string friction, where Nanosilver 17 is 23 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Dunlop

Tour Performance 16

Nylon · 16 ga

Gosen

Nanosilver 17

Nylon · 17 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
16026th pct
15720th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
2227th pct
2225th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9596th pct
9598th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
4.132nd pct
4.543rd pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.41231st pct
0.39822nd pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.10165th pct
0.08842nd 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 Tour Performance 16 at 52 lb

String Nanosilver 17 at 51.7 lb 23.5 kg

Coming from Nanosilver 17 at 52 lb

String Tour Performance 16 at 52.3 lb 23.7 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.

Tour Performance 16 mains / Nanosilver 17 crosses

Stiffness23rd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss26th pct · 1 measured
Energy return97th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential33rd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite29th pct · 1 measured
String friction60th pct · 1 measured

Nanosilver 17 mains / Tour Performance 16 crosses

Stiffness22nd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss25th pct · 1 measured
Energy return97th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential42nd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite24th pct · 1 measured
String friction48th 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.

Tour Performance 16

~32 hours of play

Nanosilver 17

~33 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Dunlop Tour Performance 16 Nylon16find16022954.10.4120.101
Gosen Nanosilver 17 Nylon17find15722954.50.3980.088

Add a third string Tour Performance 16 in full Nanosilver 17 in full