diff --git a/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/network/SslTransportLayer.java b/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/network/SslTransportLayer.java
index d047c79ce8a1c..6eca0d2858165 100644
--- a/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/network/SslTransportLayer.java
+++ b/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/network/SslTransportLayer.java
@@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ private void handshakeFailure(SSLException sslException, boolean flush) {
     //      unable to process the server message and an SSLException is thrown:
     //      javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?
     //   b) If server closes the connection gracefully during handshake, client may receive close_notify
-    //      and and an SSLException is thrown:
+    //      and an SSLException is thrown:
     //      javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Received close_notify during handshake
     // We want to handle a) as a non-retriable SslAuthenticationException and b) as a retriable IOException.
     // To do this we need to rely on the exception string. Since it is safer to throw a retriable exception