diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 05a983576..3a07b9a87 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ nosexcover # BSD
 openstack.nose-plugin>=0.7 # Apache-2.0
 oslosphinx!=3.4.0,>=2.5.0 # Apache-2.0
 reno>=1.6.2 # Apache2
-requests>=2.8.1,!=2.9.0  # Apache-2.0
+requests!=2.9.0,>=2.8.1 # Apache-2.0
 selenium>=2.50.1 # Apache-2.0
 sphinx!=1.2.0,!=1.3b1,<1.3,>=1.1.2 # BSD
 testtools>=1.4.0 # MIT