Gamma Zo Dart 17 (1.25) vs Head Hawk Rough 17

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

  Zo Dart 17 (1.25)246th

  Hawk Rough 17314th

• Easier on my arm

  Zo Dart 17 (1.25)479th

  Hawk Rough 17373rd

• More control, less launch

  Zo Dart 17 (1.25)280th

  Hawk Rough 17411th

• More power and depth

  Zo Dart 17 (1.25)373rd

  Hawk Rough 17315th

• Plays the same for longer

  Zo Dart 17 (1.25)317th

  Hawk Rough 17263rd

• Lasts longer before it breaks

  Zo Dart 17 (1.25)93rd

  Hawk Rough 17196th

• Best feel and touch

  Zo Dart 17 (1.25)359th

  Hawk Rough 17315th

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 Zo Dart 17 (1.25) in full Hawk Rough 17 in full