Head to head

Prince Synthetic Gut Multifilament 16 vs Wilson Extreme 16 Synthetic Gut

Extreme 16 Synthetic Gut leads on 5 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Extreme 16 Synthetic Gut is 32 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Prince

Synthetic Gut Multifilament 16

Nylon · 16 ga

Wilson

Extreme 16 Synthetic Gut

Nylon · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm

17341st pct

17442nd pct

Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it

2018th pct

Energy return higher = livelier, more free power

9276th pct

9378th pct

Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed

2.76th pct

3.213th pct

Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder

0.37611th pct

0.42943rd pct

String friction lower = strings slide and snap back

0.14191st pct

0.13589th 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.

More spin and shape

Synthetic Gut Multifilament 16694th

Extreme 16 Synthetic Gut613th
Easier on my arm

Synthetic Gut Multifilament 16265th

Extreme 16 Synthetic Gut267th
More control, less launch

Synthetic Gut Multifilament 16542nd

Extreme 16 Synthetic Gut534th
More power and depth

Synthetic Gut Multifilament 16254th

Extreme 16 Synthetic Gut246th
Plays the same for longer

Synthetic Gut Multifilament 16153rd

Extreme 16 Synthetic Gut145th
Lasts longer before it breaks

Synthetic Gut Multifilament 16567th

Extreme 16 Synthetic Gut660th
Best feel and touch

Synthetic Gut Multifilament 16254th

Extreme 16 Synthetic Gut245th

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 Synthetic Gut Multifilament 16 at 52 lb

String Extreme 16 Synthetic Gut at 48.4 lb 22.0 kg

Coming from Extreme 16 Synthetic Gut at 52 lb

String Synthetic Gut Multifilament 16 at 55.9 lb 25.4 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.

Synthetic Gut Multifilament 16 mains / Extreme 16 Synthetic Gut crosses

Stiffness42nd pct · 1 measured

Tension loss18th pct · 1 measured

Energy return77th pct · 1 measured

Spin potential7th pct · 1 measured

Ball bite14th pct · 1 measured

String friction91st pct · 1 measured

Extreme 16 Synthetic Gut mains / Synthetic Gut Multifilament 16 crosses

Stiffness42nd pct · 1 measured

Tension loss18th pct · 1 measured

Energy return77th pct · 1 measured

Spin potential12th pct · 1 measured

Ball bite38th pct · 1 measured

String friction90th 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.

Synthetic Gut Multifilament 16

~35 hours of play

Extreme 16 Synthetic Gut

~35 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
String	Gauge	Price	Stiff lb/in	Loss %	Power %	Spin	Bite COF	Friction COF
Prince Synthetic Gut Multifilament 16 Nylon	16	find	173	20	92	2.7	0.376	0.141
Wilson Extreme 16 Synthetic Gut Nylon	16	find	174	20	93	3.2	0.429	0.135

Add a third string Synthetic Gut Multifilament 16 in full Extreme 16 Synthetic Gut in full