Unbeaten United States and Australia headed into the quarter- finals and are favorites to set up a re-match of the finals of the Sydney Games women's basketball competition.

The U.S. is to open the last eight round against Greece at their new venue, the 19,250-seat Olympic Indoor Hall, on Wednesday, Aug. 25.

Greece, two wins and three losses from the preliminary round, will rely mostly on Evanthia Maltsi, who averaged 20.4 points per game, to break a 39-game unbeaten record of the U.S..

Lisa Leslie is leading the reigning champions with 17.4 points per game and will continue her dominance under the basket.

Australia, silver medals winner in Sydney in 2000, is to face New Zealand in the quarter-finals.The group A winners kept a 22- game winning streak against their Australian opponents.

Russia goes into a rematch of last European Championships with the Czech Republic which they won 4-1.

The tournament's tallest inside line-up, 2.14-meter center Maria Stepanova, Ilona Korstin and Elena Baranova, is too dominant to be handled for the Czech.

Sydney 2000 bronze medallists, Brazil and European bronze medallist, Spain, play in the third match of the evening with Spain the favorite to advance as it lost only once to the United States in the tournament.