diff --git a/packages/@react-stately/tabs/src/useTabListState.ts b/packages/@react-stately/tabs/src/useTabListState.ts
index 116e39b059f..494db56aa4d 100644
--- a/packages/@react-stately/tabs/src/useTabListState.ts
+++ b/packages/@react-stately/tabs/src/useTabListState.ts
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ export function useTabListState<T extends object>(props: TabListStateOptions<T>)
   useEffect(() => {
     // Ensure a tab is always selected (in case no selected key was specified or if selected item was deleted from collection)
     let selectedKey = currentSelectedKey;
-    if (props.selectedKey == null && (selectionManager.isEmpty || selectedKey == null || !collection.getItem(selectedKey))) {
+    if (props.selectedKey === undefined && (selectionManager.isEmpty || selectedKey == null || !collection.getItem(selectedKey))) {
       selectedKey = findDefaultSelectedKey(collection, state.disabledKeys);
       if (selectedKey != null) {
         // directly set selection because replace/toggle selection won't consider disabled keys
diff --git a/packages/react-aria-components/stories/Tabs.stories.tsx b/packages/react-aria-components/stories/Tabs.stories.tsx
index ab298d29521..8e1de4a2a5e 100644
--- a/packages/react-aria-components/stories/Tabs.stories.tsx
+++ b/packages/react-aria-components/stories/Tabs.stories.tsx
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ export default {
 export type TabsStory = StoryFn<typeof Tabs>;
 
 export const TabsExample: TabsStory = () => {
-  let [url, setUrl] = useState('/FoR');
+  let [url, setUrl] = useState<string | null>(null);
 
   return (
     <RouterProvider navigate={setUrl}>
diff --git a/packages/react-aria-components/test/Tabs.test.js b/packages/react-aria-components/test/Tabs.test.js
index 80c9ebfc2d4..7dd9192a0f3 100644
--- a/packages/react-aria-components/test/Tabs.test.js
+++ b/packages/react-aria-components/test/Tabs.test.js
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ describe('Tabs', () => {
     expect(tabs[2].tagName).toBe('A');
     expect(tabs[2]).toHaveAttribute('href', '/Emp');
 
-    expect(tabs[0]).toHaveAttribute('aria-selected', 'true');
+    expect(tabs[1]).toHaveAttribute('aria-selected', 'false');
     await user.click(tabs[1]);
     expect(tabs[1]).toHaveAttribute('aria-selected', 'true');