diff --git a/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt b/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt
index 295c996af45..abf32c96219 100644
--- a/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ have ``null=True``.
 Usually, using ``select_related()`` can vastly improve performance because your
 app can avoid many database calls. However, there are times you are only
 interested in specific related models, or have deeply nested sets of
-relationships, and in these cases ``select_related()`` can can be optimized by
+relationships, and in these cases ``select_related()`` can be optimized by
 explicitly passing the related field names you are interested in. Only
 the specified relations will be followed.