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Gosen Poly Professional 17 (1.24) vs Solinco Tour Bite 20 (1.05)

Tour Bite 20 (1.05) leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Tour Bite 20 (1.05) is 33 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Gosen

Poly Professional 17 (1.24)

Polyester · 17 ga

Solinco

Tour Bite 20 (1.05)

Polyester · 20 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
16937th pct
1364th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4576th pct
4782nd pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8733rd pct
8739th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
5.671st pct
5.876th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.45156th pct
0.54389th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.08126th pct
0.09353rd pct

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.

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 Poly Professional 17 (1.24) at 52 lb

String Tour Bite 20 (1.05) at 64.7 lb 29.3 kg

Coming from Tour Bite 20 (1.05) at 52 lb

String Poly Professional 17 (1.24) at 41.8 lb 19.0 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.

Poly Professional 17 (1.24) mains / Tour Bite 20 (1.05) crosses

Stiffness18th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss78th pct · 1 measured
Energy return35th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential72nd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite63rd pct · 1 measured
String friction32nd pct · 1 measured

Tour Bite 20 (1.05) mains / Poly Professional 17 (1.24) crosses

Stiffness12th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss80th pct · 1 measured
Energy return36th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential74th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite86th 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.

Poly Professional 17 (1.24)

~17 hours of play

Tour Bite 20 (1.05)

~15 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Gosen Poly Professional 17 (1.24) Polyester17find16945875.60.4510.081
Solinco Tour Bite 20 (1.05) Polyester20$13.9913647875.80.5430.093

Add a third string Poly Professional 17 (1.24) in full Tour Bite 20 (1.05) in full