A sport mushrooming in popularity will soon be played in Walnutport.

Borough grant coordinator Michael Wentz announced at Thursday’s borough council meeting that “pickleball is alive and well.”

Council last month unanimously approved a quote of $2,470 from S&G Asphalt Service, Slatington, to line its pickleball and basketball courts.

Of that, $1,560 was to line the pickleball court, and the $910 to line the basketball court.

Wentz said the borough got a good price, and added the borough’s recreation board would pay for the work.

Council previously heard a request from resident Bob Benson, who asked for a pickleball court.

A former boys and girls tennis coach at Salisbury High School, Benson previously told council that pickleball is a growing sport.

Pickleball is a combination of tennis, table tennis, and badminton. The game is played on a court with a net. The surface is smaller than a tennis court.

Benson said that the borough has a “pretty good tennis court” for which it could use to play pickleball.

He said that a normal pickleball court costs about $7,000, and suggested that the borough power-wash its court and line it.