diff --git a/axes/helpers.py b/axes/helpers.py
index e633821..1adb7e4 100644
--- a/axes/helpers.py
+++ b/axes/helpers.py
@@ -230,15 +230,10 @@ def get_client_str(
         path_info = path_info[0]
     client_dict["path_info"] = path_info
 
-    # Template the internal dictionary representation into a readable and concatenated key: "value" format
+    # Template the internal dictionary representation into a readable and concatenated {key: "value"} format
     template = ", ".join(f'{key}: "{value}"' for key, value in client_dict.items())
-
-    # Wrap the internal dict into a single {key: "value"} bracing in the output
-    # which requires double braces when done with the Python string templating system
-    # i.e. {{key: "value"}} becomes {key: "value"} when run through a .format() call
-    template = "{{" + template + "}}"
-
-    return template.format(client_dict)
+    template = "{" + template + "}"
+    return template
 
 
 def get_query_str(query: Type[QueryDict], max_length: int = 1024) -> str:
diff --git a/axes/tests/test_utils.py b/axes/tests/test_utils.py
index 2d6f13a..2500d80 100644
--- a/axes/tests/test_utils.py
+++ b/axes/tests/test_utils.py
@@ -97,6 +97,20 @@ class ClientStringTestCase(AxesTestCase):
 
         self.assertEqual(expected, actual)
 
+    @override_settings(AXES_VERBOSE=True)
+    def test_imbalanced_quotes(self):
+        username = "butterfly.. },,,"
+        ip_address = "127.0.0.1"
+        user_agent = "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"
+        path_info = "/admin/"
+
+        expected = self.get_expected_client_str(
+            username, ip_address, user_agent, path_info
+        )
+        actual = get_client_str(username, ip_address, user_agent, path_info)
+
+        self.assertEqual(expected, actual)
+
     @override_settings(AXES_VERBOSE=True)
     def test_verbose_ip_only_client_details_tuple(self):
         username = "test@example.com"