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Head to head

Luxilon Adrenaline 16 vs Tourna Big Hitter Blue Rough 17

They split the measurements 3–3. The widest gap is ball bite, where Big Hitter Blue Rough 17 is 22 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Luxilon

Adrenaline 16

Polyester · 16 ga

Tourna

Big Hitter Blue Rough 17

Polyester · 17 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
21381st pct
21079th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4577th pct
4474th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8629th pct
8520th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
3.621st pct
3.213th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.3729th pct
0.41231st pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.10367th pct
0.12887th 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 Adrenaline 16 at 52 lb

String Big Hitter Blue Rough 17 at 53.5 lb 24.3 kg

Coming from Big Hitter Blue Rough 17 at 52 lb

String Adrenaline 16 at 50.6 lb 23.0 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.

Adrenaline 16 mains / Big Hitter Blue Rough 17 crosses

Stiffness80th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss76th pct · 1 measured
Energy return26th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential19th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite12th pct · 1 measured
String friction75th pct · 1 measured

Big Hitter Blue Rough 17 mains / Adrenaline 16 crosses

Stiffness80th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss75th pct · 1 measured
Energy return24th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential14th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite27th pct · 1 measured
String friction83rd 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.

Adrenaline 16

~17 hours of play

Big Hitter Blue Rough 17

~18 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Luxilon Adrenaline 16 Polyester16find21345863.60.3720.103
Tourna Big Hitter Blue Rough 17 Polyester17$9.9521044853.20.4120.128

Add a third string Adrenaline 16 in full Big Hitter Blue Rough 17 in full