diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/scalatest/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/scalatest/ScalatestInstrumentation.java b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/scalatest/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/scalatest/ScalatestInstrumentation.java
index b5ad3ee30cb..11919c9a080 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/scalatest/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/scalatest/ScalatestInstrumentation.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/scalatest/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/scalatest/ScalatestInstrumentation.java
@@ -7,13 +7,15 @@
 import com.google.auto.service.AutoService;
 import datadog.trace.agent.tooling.Instrumenter;
 import datadog.trace.agent.tooling.InstrumenterModule;
+import datadog.trace.bootstrap.CallDepthThreadLocalMap;
 import java.util.Set;
 import net.bytebuddy.asm.Advice;
+import org.scalatest.Reporter;
 import org.scalatest.events.Event;
 
 @AutoService(InstrumenterModule.class)
 public class ScalatestInstrumentation extends InstrumenterModule.CiVisibility
-    implements Instrumenter.ForSingleType, Instrumenter.HasMethodAdvice {
+    implements Instrumenter.ForKnownTypes, Instrumenter.HasMethodAdvice {
 
   public ScalatestInstrumentation() {
     super("ci-visibility", "scalatest");
@@ -25,8 +27,10 @@ public boolean isApplicable(Set<TargetSystem> enabledSystems) {
   }
 
   @Override
-  public String instrumentedType() {
-    return "org.scalatest.DispatchReporter";
+  public String[] knownMatchingTypes() {
+    return new String[] {
+      "org.scalatest.DispatchReporter", "org.scalatest.tools.TestSortingReporter",
+    };
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -46,13 +50,21 @@ public void methodAdvice(MethodTransformer transformer) {
             .and(takesArguments(1))
             .and(takesArgument(0, named("org.scalatest.events.Event"))),
         ScalatestInstrumentation.class.getName() + "$DispatchEventAdvice");
+    transformer.applyAdvice(
+        named("fireReadyEvents"),
+        ScalatestInstrumentation.class.getName() + "$SuppressAsyncEventsAdvice");
   }
 
   public static class DispatchEventAdvice {
     @Advice.OnMethodEnter
     public static void onDispatchEvent(@Advice.Argument(value = 0) Event event) {
+      if (CallDepthThreadLocalMap.incrementCallDepth(Reporter.class) != 0) {
+        // nested call
+        return;
+      }
+
       // Instead of registering our reporter using Scalatest's standard "-C" argument,
-      // we hook into internal dispatch reporter.
+      // we hook into internal reporter.
       // The reason is that Scalatest invokes registered reporters in a separate thread,
       // while we need to process events in the thread where they originate.
       // This is required because test span has to be active in the thread where
@@ -61,5 +73,28 @@ public static void onDispatchEvent(@Advice.Argument(value = 0) Event event) {
       // could be properly associated with it.
       DatadogReporter.handle(event);
     }
+
+    @Advice.OnMethodExit
+    public static void afterDispatchEvent() {
+      CallDepthThreadLocalMap.decrementCallDepth(Reporter.class);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * {@link org.scalatest.tools.TestSortingReporter#fireReadyEvents} is triggered asynchronously. It
+   * fires some events that are then delegated to other reporters. We need to suppress them (by
+   * increasing the call depth so that {@link DispatchEventAdvice} is aborted) as the same events
+   * are reported earlier synchronously from {@link org.scalatest.tools.TestSortingReporter#apply}
+   */
+  public static class SuppressAsyncEventsAdvice {
+    @Advice.OnMethodEnter
+    public static void onAsyncEventsTrigger() {
+      CallDepthThreadLocalMap.incrementCallDepth(Reporter.class);
+    }
+
+    @Advice.OnMethodExit
+    public static void afterAsyncEventsTrigger() {
+      CallDepthThreadLocalMap.decrementCallDepth(Reporter.class);
+    }
   }
 }