diff --git a/dev-python/tenacity/tenacity-8.4.2.ebuild b/dev-python/tenacity/tenacity-8.4.2.ebuild
index 1c59135e8307f..70c9e50d6e595 100644
--- a/dev-python/tenacity/tenacity-8.4.2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/tenacity/tenacity-8.4.2.ebuild
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ BDEPEND="
 distutils_enable_tests pytest
 
 python_test() {
+	local EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
+		# fragile to timing
+		tests/test_asyncio.py::TestContextManager::test_sleeps
+	)
 	local EPYTEST_IGNORE=()
 	if ! has_version ">=dev-python/tornado-6.4-r1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"; then
 		EPYTEST_IGNORE+=(
diff --git a/dev-python/tenacity/tenacity-8.5.0.ebuild b/dev-python/tenacity/tenacity-8.5.0.ebuild
index 8c5543d52ef53..4a9349493e905 100644
--- a/dev-python/tenacity/tenacity-8.5.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/tenacity/tenacity-8.5.0.ebuild
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ BDEPEND="
 distutils_enable_tests pytest
 
 python_test() {
+	local EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
+		# fragile to timing
+		tests/test_asyncio.py::TestContextManager::test_sleeps
+	)
+
 	local -x PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1
 	epytest
 }