diff --git a/scrapy/commands/check.py b/scrapy/commands/check.py
index 56af93548..c8dd951a7 100644
--- a/scrapy/commands/check.py
+++ b/scrapy/commands/check.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from collections import defaultdict
 from functools import wraps
-from unittest.runner import TextTestRunner
+from unittest import TextTestRunner
 
 from scrapy import signals
 from scrapy.command import ScrapyCommand
diff --git a/scrapy/contracts/__init__.py b/scrapy/contracts/__init__.py
index 55f2cab52..cfccfe0c5 100644
--- a/scrapy/contracts/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/contracts/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import sys
 import re
 from functools import wraps
-from unittest.case import TestCase
+from unittest import TestCase
 
 from scrapy.http import Request
 from scrapy.utils.spider import iterate_spider_output
diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_contracts.py b/scrapy/tests/test_contracts.py
index 38d2e56fc..7e89de25f 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_contracts.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_contracts.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from unittest.runner import TextTestRunner
+from unittest import TextTestRunner
 
 from twisted.trial import unittest