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Solinco Tour Bite Soft 16L (1.25) vs Yonex Poly Tour HS 16L (1.25)

Tour Bite Soft 16L (1.25) leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Tour Bite Soft 16L (1.25) is 19 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Solinco

Tour Bite Soft 16L (1.25)

Polyester · 16L ga

Yonex

Poly Tour HS 16L (1.25)

Polyester · 16L ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
19259th pct
19867th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
2947th pct
2944th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8952nd pct
8848th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
5.876th pct
5.773rd pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.50780th pct
0.46162nd pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.08842nd pct
0.08126th 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 Soft 16L (1.25) at 52 lb

String Poly Tour HS 16L (1.25) at 50.3 lb 22.8 kg

Coming from Poly Tour HS 16L (1.25) at 52 lb

String Tour Bite Soft 16L (1.25) at 53.7 lb 24.4 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 Bite Soft 16L (1.25) mains / Poly Tour HS 16L (1.25) crosses

Stiffness62nd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss46th pct · 1 measured
Energy return49th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential74th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite78th pct · 1 measured
String friction38th pct · 1 measured

Poly Tour HS 16L (1.25) mains / Tour Bite Soft 16L (1.25) crosses

Stiffness64th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss45th pct · 1 measured
Energy return49th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential74th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite64th pct · 1 measured
String friction30th 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 Soft 16L (1.25)

~26 hours of play

Poly Tour HS 16L (1.25)

~27 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Solinco Tour Bite Soft 16L (1.25) Polyester16L$13.9919229895.80.5070.088
Yonex Poly Tour HS 16L (1.25) Polyester16Lfind19829885.70.4610.081

Add a third string Tour Bite Soft 16L (1.25) in full Poly Tour HS 16L (1.25) in full