Head to head

Gamma TNT2 15L (1.40) vs Tourna Synthetic Gut Armor 16

Synthetic Gut Armor 16 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Synthetic Gut Armor 16 is 14 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Gamma

TNT2 15L (1.40)

Nylon · 15L ga

Tourna

Synthetic Gut Armor 16

Nylon/Polyester · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
18147th pct
17240th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
166th pct
143rd pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9381st pct
9378th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
5.774th pct
5.978th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.44754th pct
0.47568th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.07819th pct
0.08126th 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 TNT2 15L (1.40) at 52 lb

String Synthetic Gut Armor 16 at 54.6 lb 24.8 kg

Coming from Synthetic Gut Armor 16 at 52 lb

String TNT2 15L (1.40) at 49.5 lb 22.5 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.

TNT2 15L (1.40) mains / Synthetic Gut Armor 16 crosses

Stiffness44th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss5th pct · 1 measured
Energy return79th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential75th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite57th pct · 1 measured
String friction19th pct · 1 measured

Synthetic Gut Armor 16 mains / TNT2 15L (1.40) crosses

Stiffness44th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss4th pct · 1 measured
Energy return79th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential77th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite66th pct · 1 measured
String friction25th 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.

TNT2 15L (1.40)

~38 hours of play

Synthetic Gut Armor 16

~39 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Gamma TNT2 15L (1.40) Nylon15Lfind18116935.70.4470.078
Tourna Synthetic Gut Armor 16 Nylon/Polyester16find17214935.90.4750.081

Add a third string TNT2 15L (1.40) in full Synthetic Gut Armor 16 in full