diff --git a/packages/playwright/src/runner/loadUtils.ts b/packages/playwright/src/runner/loadUtils.ts
index 5192fa8824..3096879906 100644
--- a/packages/playwright/src/runner/loadUtils.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright/src/runner/loadUtils.ts
@@ -123,7 +123,6 @@ export async function createRootSuite(testRun: TestRun, errors: TestError[], sho
   const config = testRun.config;
   // Create root suite, where each child will be a project suite with cloned file suites inside it.
   const rootSuite = new Suite('', 'root');
-  const unfilteredProjectSuites = new Map<FullProjectInternal, Suite>();
   const projectSuites = new Map<FullProjectInternal, Suite>();
   const filteredProjectSuites = new Map<FullProjectInternal, Suite>();
 
@@ -137,11 +136,10 @@ export async function createRootSuite(testRun: TestRun, errors: TestError[], sho
 
     // Filter file suites for all projects.
     for (const [project, fileSuites] of testRun.projectSuites) {
-      unfilteredProjectSuites.set(project, createProjectSuite(project, fileSuites));
+      projectSuites.set(project, createProjectSuite(project, fileSuites));
+
       const filteredFileSuites = additionalFileMatcher ? fileSuites.filter(fileSuite => additionalFileMatcher(fileSuite.location!.file)) : fileSuites;
-      const projectSuite = createProjectSuite(project, filteredFileSuites);
-      projectSuites.set(project, projectSuite);
-      const filteredProjectSuite = filterProjectSuite(projectSuite, { cliFileFilters, cliTitleMatcher, testIdMatcher: config.testIdMatcher });
+      const filteredProjectSuite = filterProjectSuite(createProjectSuite(project, filteredFileSuites), { cliFileFilters, cliTitleMatcher, testIdMatcher: config.testIdMatcher });
       filteredProjectSuites.set(project, filteredProjectSuite);
     }
   }
@@ -204,7 +202,7 @@ export async function createRootSuite(testRun: TestRun, errors: TestError[], sho
     // Clone file suites for dependency projects.
     for (const [project, level] of projectClosure.entries()) {
       if (level === 'dependency')
-        rootSuite._prependSuite(buildProjectSuite(project, unfilteredProjectSuites.get(project)!));
+        rootSuite._prependSuite(buildProjectSuite(project, projectSuites.get(project)!));
     }
   }