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Solinco Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20) vs Weiss Cannon Scorpion 1.22

Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20) leads on 5 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20) is 68 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Solinco

Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20)

Polyester · 17 ga

Weiss Cannon

Scorpion 1.22

Polyester

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
18248th pct
19360th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4473rd pct
4474th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8737th pct
8735th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
4.337th pct
4.030th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.51683rd pct
0.38515th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.11982nd pct
0.09759th 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 Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20) at 52 lb

String Scorpion 1.22 at 44.2 lb 20.0 kg

Coming from Scorpion 1.22 at 52 lb

String Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20) at 57.9 lb 26.3 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 Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20) mains / Scorpion 1.22 crosses

Stiffness53rd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss74th pct · 1 measured
Energy return36th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential36th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite76th pct · 1 measured
String friction79th pct · 1 measured

Scorpion 1.22 mains / Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20) crosses

Stiffness55th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss74th pct · 1 measured
Energy return36th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential31st pct · 1 measured
Ball bite26th pct · 1 measured
String friction67th 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 Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20)

~18 hours of play

Scorpion 1.22

~18 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Solinco Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20) Polyester17$13.9918244874.30.5160.119
Weiss Cannon Scorpion 1.22 Polyester—find19344874.00.3850.097

Add a third string Tour Bite Diamond Rough 17 (1.20) in full Scorpion 1.22 in full