Tecnifibre TGV 17/1.25 vs Tecnifibre XR3 16

Measured, side by side

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

  TGV 17/1.25600th

  XR3 16599th

• Easier on my arm

  TGV 17/1.25223rd

  XR3 16214th

• More control, less launch

  TGV 17/1.25590th

  XR3 16589th

• More power and depth

  TGV 17/1.25212th

  XR3 16237th

• Plays the same for longer

  TGV 17/1.25172nd

  XR3 16173rd

• Lasts longer before it breaks

  TGV 17/1.25683rd

  XR3 16666th

• Best feel and touch

  TGV 17/1.25211th

  XR3 16231st

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.

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.

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.

Both strings in full

Add a third string TGV 17/1.25 in full XR3 16 in full