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Tourna Big Hitter Blue Rough 16 vs Weiss Cannon MatchPower 1.25

MatchPower 1.25 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is string friction, where MatchPower 1.25 is 8 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Tourna

Big Hitter Blue Rough 16

Polyester · 16 ga

Weiss Cannon

MatchPower 1.25

Polyester

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
22289th pct
21886th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4168th pct
3865th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8734th pct
8734th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
3.416th pct
3.621st pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.39420th pct
0.38917th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.11781st pct
0.10874th 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 Big Hitter Blue Rough 16 at 52 lb

String MatchPower 1.25 at 51.8 lb 23.5 kg

Coming from MatchPower 1.25 at 52 lb

String Big Hitter Blue Rough 16 at 52.1 lb 23.6 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.

Big Hitter Blue Rough 16 mains / MatchPower 1.25 crosses

Stiffness88th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss67th pct · 1 measured
Energy return34th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential17th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite19th pct · 1 measured
String friction79th pct · 1 measured

MatchPower 1.25 mains / Big Hitter Blue Rough 16 crosses

Stiffness88th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss66th pct · 1 measured
Energy return34th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential19th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite17th pct · 1 measured
String friction76th 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.

Big Hitter Blue Rough 16

~20 hours of play

MatchPower 1.25

~20 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Tourna Big Hitter Blue Rough 16 Polyester16$9.9522241873.40.3940.117
Weiss Cannon MatchPower 1.25 Polyester—find21838873.60.3890.108

Add a third string Big Hitter Blue Rough 16 in full MatchPower 1.25 in full