Surrey pickleball players head indoors for dink shots, doubles and more<\/p>\n
Published 1:30 pm Tuesday, June 9, 2026<\/p>\n
Pickleball is no longer just an outdoor sport in Surrey.<\/p>\n
The popular game is growing indoors, too, as Surrey Pickleball Club operates indoor courts at Peace Portal Alliance Church, and Westcoast Pickleball has a club-like facility in Newton.<\/p>\n
New to Central City Shopping Centre is IPOP (\u201cInclusive Place of Pickleball\u201d), home to 12 courts opened May 30 in the former Best Buy\/Spirit Halloween space at the corner of King George Boulevard and Old Yale Road.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are a hybrid public\/membership-based facility, where our players and members have all day, everyday access to drop-in play, events, court rentals and more,\u201d the IPOP website says.<\/p>\n
On 130 Street in Newton, Westcoast Pickleball is more intimate with two courts and a third to be built, along with a skinny \u201chalf court\u201d and lounge \u2014 a place advertised as Surrey\u2019s first private indoor pickleball facility.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople join, book in, they get an access code, they come in, they play and they leave,\u201d explained Shaida Nanji, who opened the facility two years ago and now boasts 671 active members.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m trying to build up this boutique style of pickleball facility where we have the courts, a massage bed if you have a sore back or something, more of a spa-like pickleball facility,\u201d Nanji added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re putting money into this because we want it to be different than anything else. The women come to play and visit, guys come in at six in the morning, they have the music blaring and coffee. That\u2019s what I want, a community. I don\u2019t want 12 courts where nobody knows who you are. Here, everybody knows each other, everybody talks to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the pickleball beat today checking out WestCoast\u2019s boutique indoor club in Newton. Expansion soon to add third court at 2-year-old facility off 130 Street. Owner Shaida Nanji, who lives in White Rock and owns the entire complex, discovered the paddle sport during COVID. pic.twitter.com\/HaQAfhsQOJ<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Tom Zillich (@TomZillich) June 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Nanji, a White Rock resident who owns the complex that houses Westcoast Pickleball<\/a>, began playing the game when COVID-19 hit.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m on the board of Surrey Pickleball Club, an event planner for them over the past five years,\u201d she noted. \u201cThen I became a ref, a level-two coach, then I started competing. I\u2019ve got about 52 medals, I do tournaments all over. I had a lot of time after COVID because my daughter was growing up. I thought, what do I want to do? I progressively got better (at pickleball), getting very good at it now.\u201d<\/p>\n Meantime, IPOP<\/a> has locations in Burnaby and now Surrey, with more coming to Kelowna, Victoria, Penticton and Nanaimo. Chris White, founder and \u201cChief Paddle Officer,\u201d is a self-described pickleball superfan and coach.<\/p>\n \u201cRecognizing the threat of losing outdoor courts due to harsh winters and limited indoor facilities, I realized the urgent need to expand Canadian pickleball communities,\u201d White writes on the IPOP website. \u201cTo address this, I\u2019ve been actively involved in building, renovating, and repurposing dedicated pickleball facilities throughout the country.\u201d<\/p>\n Surrey\u2019s newest indoor pickleball facility is IPOP, nine courts in the former Best Buy\/Spirit Halloween building at Central City mall. Opened Saturday \u2014 Tom Zillich (@TomZillich) June 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n The City of Surrey\u2019s dozens of outdoor pickleball courts are listed on surrey.ca<\/a>. Most at one site are 18 courts at South Surrey Athletic Park, where Surrey Pickleball Club members play from mid-April to mid-September, then indoors in fall and winter.<\/p>\n
as second site in chain of IPOP (\u201cInclusive Place of Pickleball\u201d) pic.twitter.com\/i2lLxmvxRN<\/a><\/p>\n