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Prince Syn Gut Original 16 vs Prince Tournament Nylon 15L

Tournament Nylon 15L leads on 5 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is string friction, where Tournament Nylon 15L is 5 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Prince

Syn Gut Original 16

Nylon · 16 ga

Prince

Tournament Nylon 15L

Nylon · 15L ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
19258th pct
18754th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
2120th pct
2017th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9272nd pct
9272nd pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
2.98th pct
3.111th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.3584th pct
0.3615th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.12485th pct
0.11680th 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 Syn Gut Original 16 at 52 lb

String Tournament Nylon 15L at 53.9 lb 24.4 kg

Coming from Tournament Nylon 15L at 52 lb

String Syn Gut Original 16 at 49.8 lb 22.6 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.

Syn Gut Original 16 mains / Tournament Nylon 15L crosses

Stiffness57th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss19th pct · 1 measured
Energy return72nd pct · 1 measured
Spin potential8th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite4th pct · 1 measured
String friction84th pct · 1 measured

Tournament Nylon 15L mains / Syn Gut Original 16 crosses

Stiffness56th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss18th pct · 1 measured
Energy return72nd pct · 1 measured
Spin potential10th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite5th pct · 1 measured
String friction82nd 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.

Syn Gut Original 16

~34 hours of play

Tournament Nylon 15L

~35 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Prince Syn Gut Original 16 Nylon16find19221922.90.3580.124
Prince Tournament Nylon 15L Nylon15Lfind18720923.10.3610.116

Add a third string Syn Gut Original 16 in full Tournament Nylon 15L in full