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Gosen Sidewinder 16 (1.31) vs Solinco Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20)

Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20) leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20) is 49 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Gosen

Sidewinder 16 (1.31)

Polyester · 16 ga

Solinco

Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20)

Polyester · 17 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
16330th pct
18248th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4781st pct
4473rd pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8733rd pct
8737th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
3.824th pct
4.337th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.41634th pct
0.51683rd pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.11076th pct
0.11982nd 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 Sidewinder 16 (1.31) at 52 lb

String Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20) at 46.8 lb 21.2 kg

Coming from Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20) at 52 lb

String Sidewinder 16 (1.31) at 57.8 lb 26.2 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.

Sidewinder 16 (1.31) mains / Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20) crosses

Stiffness39th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss78th pct · 1 measured
Energy return34th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential27th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite45th pct · 1 measured
String friction78th pct · 1 measured

Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20) mains / Sidewinder 16 (1.31) crosses

Stiffness43rd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss76th pct · 1 measured
Energy return35th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential33rd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite78th pct · 1 measured
String friction81st 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.

Sidewinder 16 (1.31)

~16 hours of play

Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20)

~18 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Gosen Sidewinder 16 (1.31) Polyester16find16347873.80.4160.110
Solinco Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20) Polyester17$13.9918244874.30.5160.119

Add a third string Sidewinder 16 (1.31) in full Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20) in full