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HTML

<table id="points-table">
    <tr>
        <td><ul>
            <li>asdsad</li>
            <li>sadsad</li>
            <li>sadsad</li>
            <li>sadsad</li>
        </ul></td>
        <td>asdsad</td>
        <td>sadsad</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>asdsad</td>
        <td>sadsad</td>
        <td>asdsad</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>asdsad</td>
        <td>asdsad</td>
        <td>sadsad</td>
    </tr>
</table>

CSS

#points-table tr :first-child {
    background: red;
}

#points-table tr ul li {
    background-color: green;
}