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Poly Star Strike 16L (1.25) vs Solinco Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30)

Strike 16L (1.25) leads on 3 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30) is 55 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Poly Star

Strike 16L (1.25)

Polyester · 16L ga

Solinco

Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30)

Polyester · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
18451st pct
19360th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
5191st pct
5292nd pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
827th pct
827th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
4.851st pct
4.954th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.41533rd pct
0.54088th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.08739th pct
0.11177th 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 Strike 16L (1.25) at 52 lb

String Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30) at 52.2 lb 23.7 kg

Coming from Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30) at 52 lb

String Strike 16L (1.25) at 51.6 lb 23.4 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.

Strike 16L (1.25) mains / Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30) crosses

Stiffness55th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss91st pct · 1 measured
Energy return7th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential53rd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite47th pct · 1 measured
String friction53rd pct · 1 measured

Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30) mains / Strike 16L (1.25) crosses

Stiffness56th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss91st pct · 1 measured
Energy return7th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential53rd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite84th pct · 1 measured
String friction70th 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.

Strike 16L (1.25)

~13 hours of play

Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30)

~13 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Poly Star Strike 16L (1.25) Polyester16Lfind18451824.80.4150.087
Solinco Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30) Polyester16$13.9919352824.90.5400.111

Add a third string Strike 16L (1.25) in full Tour Bite Diamond Rough 16 (1.30) in full