diff --git a/ext/opentelemetry-ext-requests/src/opentelemetry/ext/requests/__init__.py b/ext/opentelemetry-ext-requests/src/opentelemetry/ext/requests/__init__.py
index 2a82e9820cb..1621c4a95e6 100644
--- a/ext/opentelemetry-ext-requests/src/opentelemetry/ext/requests/__init__.py
+++ b/ext/opentelemetry-ext-requests/src/opentelemetry/ext/requests/__init__.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     import opentelemetry.ext.requests
 
     # You can optionally pass a custom TracerProvider to RequestInstrumentor.instrument()
-    opentelemetry.ext.requests.RequestInstrumentor.instrument()
+    opentelemetry.ext.requests.RequestsInstrumentor().instrument()
     response = requests.get(url="https://www.example.org/")
 
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