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Prince Tour XP 16 vs Prince Tour XS 16

Tour XS 16 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Tour XS 16 is 25 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Prince

Tour XP 16

Polyester · 16 ga

Prince

Tour XS 16

Polyester · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
19867th pct
19765th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
3762nd pct
3661st pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8955th pct
9058th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
5.569th pct
5.569th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.43648th pct
0.48873rd pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.07921st pct
0.08944th 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 Tour XP 16 at 52 lb

String Tour XS 16 at 54.6 lb 24.8 kg

Coming from Tour XS 16 at 52 lb

String Tour XP 16 at 49.3 lb 22.4 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.

Tour XP 16 mains / Tour XS 16 crosses

Stiffness65th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss61st pct · 1 measured
Energy return57th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential69th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite51st pct · 1 measured
String friction28th pct · 1 measured

Tour XS 16 mains / Tour XP 16 crosses

Stiffness65th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss61st pct · 1 measured
Energy return57th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential69th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite70th pct · 1 measured
String friction38th 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.

Tour XP 16

~22 hours of play

Tour XS 16

~22 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Prince Tour XP 16 Polyester16find19837895.50.4360.079
Prince Tour XS 16 Polyester16find19736905.50.4880.089

Add a third string Tour XP 16 in full Tour XS 16 in full