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Head to head

Luxilon Adrenaline Rough 16L/1.25 vs Tourna Big Hitter Blue Rough 17

Adrenaline Rough 16L/1.25 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Adrenaline Rough 16L/1.25 is 15 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Luxilon

Adrenaline Rough 16L/1.25

Polyester · 16L ga

Tourna

Big Hitter Blue Rough 17

Polyester · 17 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
20370th pct
21079th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4576th pct
4474th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8628th pct
8520th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
3.314th pct
3.213th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.43246th pct
0.41231st pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.13087th 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 Rough 16L/1.25 at 52 lb

String Big Hitter Blue Rough 17 at 51.8 lb 23.5 kg

Coming from Big Hitter Blue Rough 17 at 52 lb

String Adrenaline Rough 16L/1.25 at 52.2 lb 23.7 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 Rough 16L/1.25 mains / Big Hitter Blue Rough 17 crosses

Stiffness73rd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss76th pct · 1 measured
Energy return24th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential14th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite43rd pct · 1 measured
String friction87th pct · 1 measured

Big Hitter Blue Rough 17 mains / Adrenaline Rough 16L/1.25 crosses

Stiffness75th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss74th pct · 1 measured
Energy return23rd pct · 1 measured
Spin potential14th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite33rd pct · 1 measured
String friction87th 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 Rough 16L/1.25

~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 Rough 16L/1.25 Polyester16Lfind20345863.30.4320.130
Tourna Big Hitter Blue Rough 17 Polyester17$9.9521044853.20.4120.128

Add a third string Adrenaline Rough 16L/1.25 in full Big Hitter Blue Rough 17 in full