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She loves junk food and watching baseball while in the U.S., but Germany’s Andrea Petkovic has still been tagged by her peers as an intellectual. That’s because the 22-year-old speaks four languages — French, German, English and Serbian — and lists among her favorite writers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, one of the key figures in German literature. “I understand everything (when I read Goethe),” Petkovic said Sunday after reaching the second round of the French Open by beating Elena Ves- nina of Russia 4-6, 6-1, 6-4. “I don’t mind being an intellectual or whatever.”The Associated Press; Getty Images photo
